A war on humanitarianism?
By: Mélanie Thienard Source: Wikimedia Is the United States waging a war on humanitarianism? On 26 October 2015, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Northern Yemen was struck by airstrikes,...
View ArticleTo kill or to capture? The conundrum facing the Supreme Court and military...
By: W. M. Hart A local boy watches an inspection at a new prison in Farah province, Afghanistan (ISAF photo/ USAF 1st Lt Mark Graff). Source: Flickr On 4 February 2016, heads of state and international...
View ArticleThe Limits of US Security Cooperation in Jordan
By: Peter Kirechu President Barack Obama Meets with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office on 26 April, 2013. Source: Wikimedia. The most notable feature of President Barack Obama’s...
View ArticleBook review: ‘America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and...
Reviewed by: Cheng Lai Ki Christopher Lawrence. America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Oxford, UK. Casemate Publishers, 2015. ISBN: 978-1612002781. Hardcover. £19.99...
View ArticleBook Review: “What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?”
Reviewed by: Millie Radovic Gurcan, Metin. What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?: Understanding Counter-Insurgency Efforts in Tribalized Rural and Muslim Environments. Helion and Company, 2016. ISBN:...
View ArticleSo Little Winning: The Afghanistan Papers and Victory Theory
by Michael C. Davies The Washington Post’s publication of the Afghanistan Papers exposed the unwinnable nature of the war (Image Credit: The Atlantic) In a testament to the hyperactive character of our...
View ArticleNormative Approaches versus Inclusive Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
by Catharine Helmers (Image credit: Casey Johnson) Local ownership as a tenet of external intervention and peacebuilding has been a key point of debate for many years now, although its meaning and...
View ArticleShould Female Foreign Fighters be Repatriated?
by Francesco Bruno While as devoted as their male counterparts, female Jihadis are an underexplored topic of analysis in understanding racidalisation (Image credit: AFP) It is a woman who teaches you...
View ArticleCould Terrorists Use Afghanistan to Conduct External Ops Sooner than the...
Portrait of the terrorists who perpetrated a mass-casualty attack at a Shiite mosque in Kandahar during Friday prayers on October 15, 2021, distributed on Telegram Channels used to manage distribution...
View ArticleStrife Series: Colonial Legacies – Afghanistan – Haunted by its Colonial Borders
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visits the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, September 2021. Photo credit: Number 10, used under Creative Commons Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan is a powder keg....
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