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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, the armed conflict in the country rages on. Although its nature is changing, increasingly assuming the form of a confrontation between the insurgents ...
Despite a multitude of forecasts predicting the victory of Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s former foreign minister, in that country’s presidential election, preliminary results indicate that another contender, Ashraf Ghani, the former Finance Minister, might indeed be the winner. This result makes sense given the traditional ...
Afghanistan After 2014 With the American contingent of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) almost out of Afghanistan, analysts in Russia and other countries are quick to review Washington's errors in the context of Moscow's experiences ...
Interview with Farkhod Tolipov Interview Today pundits are talking at length about cooperation between NATO and the CSTO over Afghanistan in 2014. We met with Farkhod Tolipov , PhD in Political Science, Director of Caravan of Knowledge, an Uzbek think tank, to ask his opinion about the relevance of such discussions and the parties’ capabilities to successfully interact ...
Interview with Farkhod Tolipov, Director of Caravan of Knowledge Interview Afghanistan’s presidential elections on April 5б 2014 did not deliver an outright winner, and the second round is scheduled for late May. Although people in Afghanistan, the adjacent regions and the wider world all cherish the hope that the future ...
As American security analysts and officials continue to ring the alarm on US President Barack Obama’s plan to military withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014, a Pentagon-sponsored review made clear that a pull-out will in essence equate to handing the war-torn and battered nation back into the hands of the Taliban, or worse, Al Qaeda. If Washington has long planned to tactically withdraw ...
... Pakistan; rather, it was only the former USSR’s state ideology, Soviet Communism, which was a major point of security concern for Pakistan; the latter was already head over heels with a hostile India to the east and an increasingly hostile Communist Afghanistan in the west. Therefore, Pakistan’s alliance with the US at the time was purely for national interest and regional stability. After the grim confrontation in the 80s, the final decade of the 20th century saw variable relationships between ...
Interview with Vyacheslav Trubnikov Interview The withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 will be the SCO's main challenge in the short term. It can be addressed by expanding the organization. IMEMO Board of Directors member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia and RIAC member Vyacheslav Trubnikov ...
In light of the recent developments in Syria and the apparently imminent US military intervention, the blog will take a short break from its relatively academic style and its thematic focus in order to brainstorm and share some thoughts on the broader picture of what is happening in the geopolitical arena of the region. Dangerous Double Standards Bashar al-Assad has reportedly used chemical weapons to attack, essentially, his own people. The first, logically obvious question is why would Assad essentially...
International security in the post-Afghanistan era The international community’s security attention is on the Middle East and interrelated homeland terrorism. These are important areas, of course, but geopolitical events elsewhere suggest that matters of greater long-term international ...
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