Carlo Ungaro is a former Italian diplomat. He spent sixteen years serving in Afghanistan. Between 2000 and 2007, he served as political adviser to the Italian led ISAF forces in Herat
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Published in: HomeThe Clash of Civilizations revisitedSamuel P. Huntington’s oft-pilloried work, “The Clash of Civilizations”, has long lost its original academic...
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Published in: HomePetraeus's militias: the risk of civil war
Petraeus's proposed Afghan militias risk restoring the conditions that led Afghanistan to civil war in the 1990s....
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Published in: HomeAfghan civil society must not be abandoned
Afghan civil society and NATO war aims: talk to the Taleban and all traditional leaders
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Published in: HomeThe antiquarian of Herat
Diplomatic reminiscences from Herat in the 1970s; delicate interventions, fragile civil society.
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Published in: HomeItaly's “business as usual”
There is a certain kind of drift into a regime that has nothing to do with the introduction of paramilitary stances,...
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Published in: oDRCentral Asia: the erupting volcanoThe West turned a blind eye to the potential volatility of Central Asia because it was convenient, in Carlo Ungaro's...