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Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

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Barnett Rubin

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WPS Sidhu

Enhancing Access to Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Afghanistan

In 1996, the Taliban movement, a majority of who were religious students from Deobandi madrasas (religious schools) in Pakistan and rural Afghanistan, established a short-lived Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On arrival in Kabul, the Taliban barred women from working at public or private institutions and banned girls from schools. The Taliban regime said that the ban was because of a lack of facilities and security.

Publication Date: May 26, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin, Clancy Rudeforth

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Humanitarian Crises, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

With killing of top mullah, what’s next for the Taliban in Afghanistan?

On Saturday May 22, a U.S. drone strike killed Mullah Mansour, the leader of the Taliban and architect of the group’s bloody reconquest of Afghanistan this past year. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports on the killing, and Hari Sreenivasan talks to former Pakistani diplomat Riaz Mohammad Khan and former State Department official Barnett Rubin about what lies ahead for the Taliban.

Publication Date: May 23, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, Transnational Threats

Who Will Lead Taliban Next? Four Contenders Emerge

As the Taliban collected the body of its slain leader on Monday, the insurgent group also began discussing his replacement, insiders say — a choice that could spark furious infighting and signal whether there's any chance of a negotiated peace in Afghanistan.

Two senior members of the Afghan Taliban told NBC News that they'd received the burned remains of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, who was killed Saturday in a U.S. airstrike in southwest Pakistan — the first time since the beginning of the Afghan war that the United States had directly targeted a Taliban leader.

Publication Date: May 23, 2016

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Transnational Threats

U.S. Strike on Taliban Leader Is Seen as a Message to Pakistan

Early on Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was incinerated by an American drone.

Publication Date: May 24, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Transnational Threats

India’s Chabahar conundrum

India might be better off building an international consortium with the likes of Japan and South Korea to invest in the project

Publication Date: May 23, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: South Asia, India

Topic(s): South Asia

Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror

Dr. Barnett Rubin published "Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror" in hard cover in April 2013, and a paper back version was published through Oxford University Press in May 2015. Amazon writes that Rubin distills his unmatched knowledge of Afghanistan in this invaluable book. He shows how the Taliban arose in resistance to warlords some of whom who were raping and plundering with impunity in the vacuum of authority left by the collapse of the Afghan state after the Soviet withdrawal.

Publication Date: May 19, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

US-India partnership: Full speed ahead?

The partnership can help India build up its capacity to deter potential conflicts with China (and Pakistan) and become a net security provider with the US. This is vital for India and global security

Publication Date: Apr 25, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: China, United States, South Asia, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Pakistan, South Asia

The Brussels syndrome

“What we had feared has come to pass,” said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on 22 March.

Publication Date: Mar 28, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: Europe, South Asia, India

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises, India, Transnational Threats

The U.S. Owes Afghans Economic Support and Resettlement

The United States should work with the Afghan government to help young Afghans build a future for themselves in their country. But America's responsibility to them — after 14 years of failing to bring peace and security to Afghanistan — goes beyond that.

While the U.S. was operating in Afghanistan, it created a parallel public service sector to the Afghan government that was larger and better paid. The U.S. and NATO military and aid programs employed thousands of young Afghans, newly educated in schools the West paid for.

Publication Date: Apr 06, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States, South Asia

GPOR Annual Compilation now available via print-on-demand

For almost a decade, the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations (ARGPO) was the flagship publication of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC). During that time, CIC also released three editions of the Review of Political Missions.

Publication Date: Mar 21, 2016

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation