The future of Afghanistan lies with its destitute rural majority, and its view of the world.
Matthew Arnold reports from...
Tags: Afghan-Iran relations, Afghanistan, Afghanistan reconstruction, Afghanistan war, Global Brief, Hindu Kush Mountains, Kabul, Kapisa Province, Karzai, Karzai government, Matthew Arnold, Pashtun, rural Afghanistan, Tagab, Taliban insurgency, unemployment in Afghanistan, war in Afghanistan
Irreconcilable understandings of ‘the peace’ have betrayed the hollowness of saying “I’m for peace.” But time is...
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A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers
Victor Hugo famously...
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Quand Barack Obama s’est vu décerner le Nobel de la paix, la scène n’était pas sans rappeler le célèbre paradoxe...
Peering, head above the parapet, into Afghanistan’s next 10 years
In Firdausi’s Shahnameh – completed at the start...
Tags: Afghanistan, Christopher Alexander, Global Brief, India, ISAF, Kabul, Pakistan, Rostam, Shahnameh, Silk Road, Taliban, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
Recent pronouncements by Al Qaeda of intentions to acquire control of, and to use, Pakistan’s nuclear weapons beg the question,...
PROPOSITION: Canada (still) has national interests at stake in Afghanistan.
Gordon Smith (in favour): Of course, Canada...
