A Genuine Resistance that Offers Hope for all Afghans
2021-12-12
By Luke Coffey
It has been four months since the Taliban took over most of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal precipitated the collapse of the Afghan government. Since then, the situation across the country has been bleak. Millions of girls are still not allowed to attend school. Millions more are facing acute food shortages. The Afghan branch of Daesh has launched numerous deadly att
Read more
Brutally Ineffective: How the Taliban are Failing in Their New Role as Counter-Insurgents
2021-12-03
By Colin Clarke and Jonathan Schroden
“If someone doesn’t surrender to us, we kill them.”
– Qari Nurullah Fateh, Taliban fighter
Read more
The Taliban’s Big Rebrand
2021-11-27
By Bradley Devlin
The Taliban is not only courting recognition from world governments, but fealty from other branches of Islam within Afghanistan.
Now the de facto government of Afghanistan, the Taliban is trying to solidify its rule by going through a bit of a rebrand, a topic that the corporate media has covered acutely. The Taliban seems to belie
Read more
Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements
2021-11-18
By Prof. Magnus Marsden
For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to suggest that after a brief period of international intervention, Afghanistan had once again resumed its isolated position in world affairs. Against the backdrop of those tragic scenes, leading military officials and politicians in the UK depicted A
Read more
(Un)knowing the Country: Empire & the Genesis of the Afghanistan Expertise Industry
2021-11-03
By Martin J. Bayly
In light of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan is back in the news, and Afghanistan expertise is back in fashion. In this Long Read, Martin J. Bayly explores the imperial histories that sit behind these forms of expert knowledge, and what they might tell about contemporary foreign policy expertise.
Read more