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How the Taliban chose the bullet over the ballot?
November 08,2020 | Hussain Yasa
Abstract: Insofar as the Taliban leadership has a vision of the state, it embodies the centralism of the current Afghan state, but with supreme power dominated by the Taliban ....
A Brief Glimpse at C. Christine Fair Research Work: Fighting to the end - the Pakistan Army’s Way of War
November 07,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Ms. Fair is an American researcher who worked as a Senior Researcher with the Rand Research Institute and also worked in United Nations
Power Politics in the Indian Ocean
November 07,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Indian Ocean region is considered significant for the major powers in the international political arena. These powers see their security, economic and political interests connected ...
The US-backed Peace Process in Afghanistan
November 04,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
US peace process in Afghanistan includes the efforts directed towards ending the 19 years of the US war in Afghanistan, establishing peace with Taliban and initiating intra-Afghan ...
Foreign policy requirements in South Asia
November 04,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
Foreign policy is an instrument to serve the goals and national interest of a country. Managing relations with other states is a necessary activity of every state. . .
The Paradox of American Nationalism
November 03,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Nationalism pertains to the ideology or movement that connects an individual to a nation or ethnicity, which has a particular political role and pursues certain objectives. ...
Will Kabul Have a Different and Unpolluted Winter This Year?
November 03,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Last year, after persistent public complaints and criticisms about air pollution in Kabul, the government established the High Commission for Combating Air Pollution. ...
The Basic Requirements of political development in Afghanistan
November 02,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
One of the most important factors for survival of social, cultural and political life is adaptability with demand or requirements of time; even those animals such as dinosaur that failed ...
Can America Avoid an Election Crisis?
November 02,2020 | Robert Malley and Stephen Pomper
The 2020 US presidential election is unlike any other in living memory. Previous contests have been rancorous and some were described in existential terms. But never, at least ...
Why there is No Consensus on Terrorism and Terrorists?
November 01,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although terrorism is one of the universal threat, there is no theoretical and practical consensus about it. When we look at the political literature, there are more than ...
Give Centrism a Chance
November 01,2020 | Michael Bröning
Europe’s progressive intelligentsia have come to scorn political “centrism.” A misguided focus on the middle ground, critics argue, precludes the formulation ...
The Social Consequences of Covid-19 in Afghanistan
October 31,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The covid-19 outbreak has left serious social, economic and health impact throughout the world, especially on weak countries such as Afghanistan. As the infrastructure and superstructure of Afghanistan has been largely weakened as a result forty years war ...
The Danger of Extremism for New Afghanistan
October 31,2020 | Dawlat Bakhtiari
Answering the question like: “Why life has lost its meaning for many Afghans” need reading some more pages about radicalism and extremism. Extremists are the people who is dark and life threatening with backward views and were seen ...
An Overview of Petrochemical Industry in Afghanistan
October 28,2020 | Mohammad Basir Karimi
In Afghanistan after minor development in 2001 on business and industries, there have been more challenges and risks due to vulnerable environment and lack of infrastructure...
Trump Packs the Court His Way
October 28,2020 | Elizabeth Drew
Following the US elections on November 3 – although its final resolution may take longer – the partisan arrangements of almost the entire US federal government are subject ...
A Glimpse at Famous Book of Hafiz Mansoor: the Seven-Headed Demon
October 27,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Hafiz Mansoor is one of reformist figure of Afghanistan popular amidst young generation for his intellectual thoughts and benevolent characteristics. One of his popular scholarly ...
‘Heartland’ and ‘Rimland’ in Geopolitics
October 27,2020 |
In my previous article, I discussed Geopolitics in the light of Mahan’s Sea Power Theory. However, in Geopolitics, Heartland and Rimland theories are also of great significance...
A Terrorist Event or Genocidal Act in West of Kabul?
October 26,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
According to Article 2 of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is defined as any acts with intent to destroy ...
The Middle Eastern Past Is Never Dead
October 26,2020 | Mark Leonard
The images were touching. In early October, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas visited the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin with his Israeli and Emirati counterparts. How better to celebrate ...
What will be the post US Election Scenarios in Afghanistan?
October 25,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Given the escalation of war throughout the country and deadlock in intra-Afghan peace talks in Doha, everyone is worried about the future of the country. People ask what the next ...
Immunization Is the Best Weapon Against Poverty
October 25,2020 | Anuradha Gupta
A recent poll found that one in three Americans would not be willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, while anti-vaxxers have reportedly gained at least 7.8 million new social ...
Geopolitics and Mahan’s Theory of Sea Power
October 24,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
The roots of the term Geopolitics can be traced in ancient Greece. Aristotle and Thucydides used geopolitical reasoning in their seminal works that are considered important even ...
Afghanistan Must not be the Slaughterhouse of Civilians Anymore
October 24,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Sadly, the local media news shows that Afghanistan has become a slaughterhouse for Afghan civilians in recent weeks and months. Availing the defensive position of national security ...
US Foreign Policy Traditions
October 21,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
American scholar, Walter Russel Mead, in his famous book – Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World – considers the foreign policy of the US as one ...
Dangers and kinds of ethnicity in South Asia
October 21,2020 | Dr. Rajkumar Singh
In modern times, Anthony D. Smith places ethnicity in the context of modernisation and Cynthia Enloe examines the issue in the context of power and authority while John Saul looks ...
Growing Role of China and Russia in Central Asia
October 20,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
The Central Asian region is a very important region as far as its strategic location is concerned. It is basically a bridge between East and West, and can even be considered ...
The World Food Day Marked Amidst Food Crisis in Afghanistan
October 20,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
The 16th October was coincided with World Food Day. This day was celebrated in Afghanistan while a large number of Afghan people are suffering from food shortage and fell under ...
Pathology of Peace Building in Afghanistan
October 19,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although Afghanistan has increasingly witnessed peace movements in recent years, there seems no comprehensive strategy to cover all dimensions of peace such as cultural aspect ...
Making Business Work for Nature
October 19,2020 | Erin Billman and Eva Zabey
The latest edition of the United Nations’ Global Biodiversity Outlook, published by the Convention on Biological Diversity, makes for bleak reading. As the report notes, biodiversity ...
George W. Bush and Afghanistan, Iraq Wars
October 18,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
George W. Bush was the president of the United States (US) from 2001 to 2009 – the most challenging times for the US as the country faced direct threats from global terrorism...
The situation of intellectual community in modern Afghanistan
October 18,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although there are numerous intellectuals, degree holders, scholars and universities, they have not played effective role in reconstruction of culture, economy and social integrity ...
Why We Are United in Disunity?
October 17,2020 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although we have had some good achievements in last two decades in deferent fields, there were no admirable achievement in national oneness in Afghanistan. . .
The Recovery Needs Development Aid
October 17,2020 | Kevin Rudd
At the start of the year, when COVID-19 was ravaging Wuhan, China, and beginning to envelop the West, I warned that the crisis would likely be replicated across much ...
Trump’s Afghanistan Policy
October 13,2020 | Sajjad Aasim
Afghanistan became significant for the United States and for the world as a whole after the incident of 9/11. Taliban, the rulers in Afghanistan at the time, refused ...
Leveraging Africa’s Informal Economy for Young People
October 13,2020 | Alice Saisha
By 2050, Africa will be home to 25% of the world’s workforce. And yet there is no guarantee that those workers – especially the growing share of young people among...