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Published in: openSecurityTalking to the other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in AfghanistanAid agency engagement with the Taliban will be critical to ensuring they can still operate after 2014. Research...
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Published in: HomeThe geopolitics of drug trafficking in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, opium is not clandestinely traded on some back alley black market. Opium is the market.
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Published in: openSecurityMilitary, Militants and Mandarins: prospects for trade and peace between two nuclear powers
Small but promising steps towards normalisation between India and Pakistan have implications beyond their bilateral...
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Published in: openSecurityThe future of Afghan refugees in Pakistan
Pakistan’s decision to speed up the return of the three million Afghan refugees living across the border places...
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Published in: HomeUS's last chance in Afghanistan: reconciliation with the PashtunsThe west's campaign in Afghanistan is simply out of date. If there is any hope in a positive outcome, then a...
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Published in: openSecurityAfghanistan Post-2014: power will be shared between the CIA, the Pentagon and the current elite
A power-sharing political system already exists, but not the one Farhad Arian envisions. The system proposed is...
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Published in: openSecurityThreatened in the bud: the fragile existence of policy research and advocacy in Pakistan
The international focus on Pakistan has affected how knowledge is produced within Pakistan, and who for. Looking...
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Published in: Home'We think of Zakir as Nick Clegg': Taliban perspectives on reconciliation
This summer, former leading figures in the Afghan Taliban and former mediators met the authors to discuss Taliban...
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Published in: openSecurityCould power-sharing build the consensus necessary for peace in Afghanistan?
For there to be stability in Afghanistan, all major ethnic groups must be guaranteed a share of power. The support...
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Published in: openSecurityCautious Allies: regional powers in Afghanistan
India, China, Russia and Iran have a surprising confluence of interests in a stable and prosperous Afghanistan, but...
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Published in: openSecurityBordering on Peace?
As we move towards the draw-down of foreign forces in Afghanistan, openSecurity asks Afghan, Pakistani and...
