The Chairman of AISS’ board of Advisers, Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta and AISS director Dr. Moradian attended the Fifth Xiangshan Forum organized by China’s Ministry of Defense on 21-22 November 2014 in Beijing.

Below is the text of Dr. Spanta’s speech:

Let me begin by thanking Gen Lui Chengjun, president of China...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with India’s Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (IDSA).

The agreement provides a framework for the two institutes’ bilateral cooperation in areas of joint research, publication, conference and scholars’ exchanges. The agr...

Former National Security Adviser of Afghanistan and the chairman of the advisory board of Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta delivered the keynote speech at the seminar on “Future Development of Afghanistan-China Relations” organized by AISS on November 10, 2014 in Kabul.

November 10, 2014

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) organized a joint Conference on “Future Development of Afghanistan-China Relations” with Chinese Embassy in Kabul and China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) on 10 November 2014 in Kabul – Afghanistan. The conference was attended by more than 100 pa...

AISS released the first of a series of papers dedicated to examining the trends in radicalization across the various sectors throughout Afghanistan. This paper is a comprehensive examination of the trends in student radicalization across university campuses in Afghanistan. Arguing that trends differ across campuses, the report adv...