Affolter Friedrich W., Sawayz S. Zabihollah, Noori Hamida , Shrestha Binod S.
One of the major rural reconstruction and local governance capacity development initiatives of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the National Solidarity Program (NSP).
For the past fifty years, academics and politicians have been discussing the problem of Pashtun domination in the political life and state structures of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: drug trafficking and regional security
Komissina Irina
It has been almost four years since the Taliban regime was overthrown in Afghanistan (an interim government was formed in June 2002) and the country began building a new state with direct assistance from the international antiterr
Central Asia: security in the context of post-2014 Afghanistan
Laumulin Murat
Its geographic location, domestic political complications, ethno-confessional diversity, and involvement in the global shadow economy keep Afghanistan in the center of the intertwining interests of state and extra-state forces.
Afghanistan: potential field of russia-u. S. regional cooperation
Morozov Yuri
Today cooperation between Russia and the U.S. in Central Asia, as part of the international efforts designed to neutralize the regional threats and challenges, is best described as spontaneous.
State-building in Afghanistan: decentralization vs. centralization
Bobokulov Inomzhon
It appears that the multinational and multiconfessional nature of Afghan society itself is the main reason prompting examination of the problem raised in this article.
FROM THE HEARTLANDS OF JIHADISM: THE POLITICS OF CHAOS IN AFGHANISTAN
This article examines the phenomenon of jihadist groups operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands and argues that the political chaos that reigns in Kabul is contributing to the growth of jihadism in Afghanistan.