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Talking to the Taliban
- Analysis
- October 18, 2021
As the Taliban swept across Afghanistan this summer, the capital cities of the provinces fell like a house of cards. Kunduz fell by August 8. Herat, Lashkar Gah, and Helmand followed within a few days. As the news of the collapse of the frenzied Afghan troops in Mazar flashed in the news, I recalled a
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CIPS Best Blog Award 2021: Public Voting Now Open
- Analysis
- October 13, 2021
Last year we launched our first ‘Best Blog Award’ competition. While the principal motivations behind the competition were to (a) offer up an engaging experience for you, dear reader and (b) draw some more attention the expertise and hard work of our authors, we also found that by rereading some of the older blogs we
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Retrotopian Desires and Gender in Right-Wing Populism
- Analysis
- October 10, 2021
Former US President Donald Trump in 2016 justified his plan to build a wall at the United States’ Southern Border to keep out Mexicans (many of whom implied he were rapists). This motif forms part of Trump’s strategy to “Make America Great Again,” in which the myth of a better, more desirable past – ostensibly before
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We Must Avoid An Isolated, Impoverished, Unstable Afghanistan
- Analysis
- October 6, 2021
After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, I consistently argued for a comprehensive, UN-facilitated peace process, encompassing all the internal Afghan parties to the conflict, including the Taliban and the regional and other actors implicated in the conflict, as the only way to address all outstanding issues, including in particular Pakistan’s support for
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