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Russia is pursuing influence in Central Asia and competing with the US. Afghanistan offers it a chance to do both.
Ten months of data reveal some alarming trends.
Successful counterinsurgency depends on winning the hearts and minds of men and women.
Suffering the daily toil of violence, with little chance of escape.
PTSD isn’t just reserved for those on the frontline – my experience alongside a surgical team at Camp Bastion showed how it could affect anyone dealing with the fall out of war.
Without a legitimate government, Afghanistan will never be stable … no matter how many terrorists are killed.
In Afghanistan, geopolitics are thorny, relationships are key and patience is strategy. The US president has outlined a decent plan, but can he see it through?
Donald Trump’s speech on “principled realism” in Afghanistan contained few surprises. Now, under the aegis of DOD chief Mattis it is the latest stage in America’s “forever war.”
The man reportedly in talks with the Trump administration has a vision of setting up something akin to the East India Company in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump has upped the ante in America’s longest-running war, but it is not clear whether an all-guns-blazing strategy will bring the long-running conflict any nearer to a conclusion. In…
We need to acknowledge that ‘band of brothers’ military culture has a dark underbelly – and that individual acts of atrocity might be a reflection of broader, systemic issues.
Unlike most domestic criminal law, the laws governing the behaviour of Australian armed forces apply to criminal conduct alleged to have taken place overseas.
Unlike its neighbours, Iran’s different ethnic groups live in relative peace and harmony. Given terrorism is often spurred by ethnic conflict, will Iranians be spared further terrorist attacks?
Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in Netherlands flies in the face of the much-vaunted Dutch reputation for tolerance.
There are refugees, there are migrants and then there are the millions of people who live in legal limbo because they defy easy categorisation. But everyone is just looking for a place to call home.
Britain cannot sacrifice more troops in an unwinnable war just because it is a member of NATO.
Migrants sent back to Afghanistan face a very grim future.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
In past wars, taxes were increased to cover some of the extra spending. That’s not the case for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the costs are adding up fast.
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Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Non-resident Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University