Afghanistan 2 - PONARS Eurasia

U.S. Security Assistance to Central Asia: Examining Limits, Exploring Opportunities

(PONARS Policy Memo) The U.S. government spent $1.9 billion on security assistance to Central Asia between 2001 and 2016. The aid was designed to increase the professionalism of Central Asian ground…

Qatar and Central Asia: What’s at Stake in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan?

(PONARS Policy Memo) Relations between Central Asian states and the Gulf Arab monarchies have expanded rapidly over the past decade. With one of the most outward-looking foreign policy agendas of…

Lyall: It’s not clear how many of these initiatives (Pakistan, India, Russia) can be done without a fully-staffed State Dept.

(The Wire) New Delhi: Even as there is quiet elation in the Indian and Afghan establishments over US President Donald Trump’s speech on South Asia in which he lambasted Pakistan for providing a “safe…

Lyall: Trump’s speech was painfully short of specifics about American strategy or end goals in Afghanistan

(Deutsche Welle) In the first major policy address on Afghanistan during his presidency Donald Trump said that he was ready to send more US troops to the country. Here are…

Cooley: The whole aesthetic of Trump goes very well with Central Asia

(McClatchy) Weeks before his inauguration, Donald Trump was allied with a company in the former Soviet republic of Georgia that planned to build a 47-story luxury tower in the Black…

Special Issue of Pathways to Peace and Security: Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization

Two PONARS Eurasia members contributed to the special issue of Pathways to Peace and Security, "Addressing Terrorism, Violent Extremism and Radicalization: Perspectives from Russia and the United States," published by Russia’s Institute…

How Washington Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Eurasian Integration

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Regional integration is a core element of Washington’s vision for post-conflict Afghanistan. Captured by the metaphor of a New Silk Road (NSR), the U.S. has long sought…

Here are the five things you need to know about the 2015 fighting season in Afghanistan

(WP) Last year was quietly disastrous for Afghanistan. You might have missed it amid the noise of the U.S. presidential elections, the wall-to-wall coverage of the Islamic State (ISIS), and the European…

Lyall: A variety of local conflicts allowed the Taliban to take Kunduz

(Vox) Some terrible news broke in Afghanistan on Monday news: The Taliban had captured the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan's fifth-largest city and home to about 300,000 people. Kunduz is the provincial…

New Policy Memo: The Coming Fall of Kabul

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo by Charles J. Sullivan) The city of Kabul has fallen on three occasions over the past generation: to the mujahedin in 1992, the Taliban in 1996, and the Northern Alliance (supported by…

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