The Coming Fall of Kabul
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The city of Kabul has fallen on three occasions over the past generation: to the mujahedin in 1992, the Taliban in 1996, and the Northern Alliance (supported…
Posts by tag
Afghanistan
62 posts
The Political Crisis in Afghanistan and its Implications for Russia
(Russia International Affairs Council) The United States and NATO are withdrawing their forces from Afghanistan, leaving the country in a difficult, albeit not entirely hopeless situation. On the one hand,…
Moscow Conference on International Security 2014 (Part 2: The panels)
In addition to the plenary panel, the MCIS conference included two panel discussions, one on the Middle East and North Africa and the second on Afghanistan. The panel entitled "Finding…
What problems does Central Asia face when foreign troops pull out of Afghanistan at the end of this year?
RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, Azatlyk, organized a roundtable with people who closely follow events in the region to hear their views on the situation in Central Asia and Afghanistan, now and…
Omissions in Russia’s Afghanistan Policy
The NATO-centrism in Russian foreign policy can perhaps best be seen through the lens of Afghanistan. Russia has no clear strategy toward this country once NATO troops withdraw. Its only…
Danger Looms in 2014 Afghan Presidential Election
Candidates are now coming forward for Afghanistan’s presidential election next year. Incumbent Hamid Karzai is by all accounts trying hard to retain control over the process. While Karzai is stepping…
How the CSTO Can (and Cannot) Help NATO
In preparation for the 2014 withdrawal of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops from Afghanistan, there have been numerous discussions about what comes next. While a role for Russia and…
Will Afghanistan Take Central Asia Down with It?
(The National Interest) (Co-author: Scott Radnitz) While U.S. foreign-policy makers are currently preoccupied with the Middle East—chaos in Egypt, raging civil war in Syria and ongoing violence in Libya—military strategists…
Russia’s Concerns Relating to Afghanistan and the Broader Region
(Research Paper) As part of a CIDOB Policy Research Project, a new paper was released titled, "Russia's Concerns Relating to Afghanistan and the Broader Region in the Context of the…
Afghanistan after 2014: The Way Forward for Russia
(Ifri report) It may appear that Russia is equally dissatisfied with both Western security’s presence in and its departure from Afghanistan planned for 2014, but whether the Western withdrawal is…