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The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy

A Publication of the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com


Ten Years After Bonn

Perspectives and Analysis

 

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The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST), ForeignAffairs.com, and the Council on Foreign Relations presents a special collection examining Afghanistan ten years following the fall of the Taliban.

This collection is comprised of a wide-range of perspectives from top military leaders, policy makers, and academics who weigh the impact of U.S. and Western foreign policy in Afghanistan, and the best course of action for the future.

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PERSPECTIVE

The Three Futures for Afghanistan

ZALMAY KHALILZAD

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, and Permanent U.S. Representative to the U.N.

PERSPECTIVE

The Case for Continuing the Counterinsurgency Campaign In Afghanistan

FREDERICK W. KAGAN and KIMBERLY KAGAN

Frederick W. Kagan: Director of the Critical Threats Project, American Enterprise Institute. Kimberly Kagan: President, Institute for the Study of War.

PERSPECTIVE

Leaving Afghanistan to the Warlords

STEPHEN BIDDLE

Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

PERSPECTIVE

A Shift in the Afghanistan Stratgy

JOHN NAGL

President, Council for New American Security

PERSPECTIVE

Afghanistan's Lost Decade

JASON LYALL

Yale University

PERSPECTIVE

An Absence of Strategic Thinking

PAUL L. YINGLING

Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center, Germany.

PERSPECTIVE

Washington's Colonial Conundrum in Afghanistan

IVAN ARREGUIN-TOFT

Boston University


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Jenna Jordan

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9/11 PERSPECTIVES


ROBERT PAPE

The End of Fear

THOMAS SCHELLING

What Ever Happened to Nuclear Terrorism?

JOHN ESPOSITO

The Consequences of Islamophobia

RAMI KHOURI

The Middle East Ten Years After 9/11

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BLOG


December 2, 2011

Lt. Col. JOHN NAGL: A Shift in the Afghanistan Strategy-Put the National Army in Front Now

October 5, 2011

Jenna Jordan in the New York Times

September 30, 2011

Awlaqi's Death Shows the Practicality of Off-Shore Balancing

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