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I see something in not reviving it. The Wakhan Corridor was created with the idea that good fences make good neighbors.* So where the Silk Road connected the world two thousand years ago you now find...

I have no idea how much it would mean in real terms at this point, but recognition of the Durand Line by the Afghan government would not hurt matters. It might be a nice goodwill gesture to a...

My limited knowledge of the history and current situation in Afghanistan (some of it second hand, most of it from a greater remove) leads me to believe that the average Afghan has good reason to be...

One of the members of the faculty of my graduate program recommended the following course of action in
an article published ten years ago:

And here is his take on things eight years later.

Just curious, but was there any reliable documentation of the hows of governance in rural Afghanistan during the existence of the IEA? Or any post-OEF projects attempting to reconstruct the same?

A relevant interview with Edward Girardet (on a book tour for his recently published Killing the Cranes) from last night’s PBS NewsHour.

“Worth reading, not worth buying” is one of the better book reviews I’ve ever read. :D Thanks for the recommendation.

Does this have something to do with the lack of a true mountain warfare unit in the U.S. military I was asking about? My understanding is that mountain units are traditionally like airborne units in...

Just a guess based mostly on what I have read of Habermas’s work (all of it in English), but the concept of legitimacy seems to play a far greater role in German discourse than it does in the U.S. So...

The bipolar issue is a bit Cromwellian, I suppose.



Not necessarily untrue, but I do think there is a ton of crosstalk when words like ‘civility’ and ‘brutality’ are used in a cross-cultural...

Well, a ladleful, maybe. ;)

I am not an expert in the area’s affairs, but doesn’t any extensive military effort in Afghanistan necessitate a land corridor with a node in Karachi? That’s leverage the ISI is always going to have....

I can’t speak about any other nation’s voters, but as far as it goes in the United States you should never underestimate the gullibility and lack of understanding of the issues possessed by the modal...

but if the War on Drugs is any indication—and given that our policy seems very much focused on fighting it in places rather than as a problem it seems to be a perfect analogy if not homology—then no...