Opinions
A Genuine Resistance that Offers Hope for all Afghans
By Luke Coffey
It has been four months since the Taliban took over most of Afghanistan after the US withdrawal precipitated the collapse of the Afghan government. Since then, the situation across the country has been bleak. Millions of gi...
Brutally Ineffective: How the Taliban are Failing in Their New Role as Counter-Insurgents
By Colin Clarke and Jonathan Schroden
“If someone doesn’t surrender to us, we kill them.”
The Taliban’s Big Rebrand
By Bradley Devlin
The Taliban is not only courting recognition from world governments, but fealty from other branches of Islam within Afghanistan.
Now the de facto government of Afghanistan, the Taliba...
Afghanistan’s Global Entanglements
By Prof. Magnus Marsden
For many viewers in the West, the horrific scenes at Kabul airport in August 2021 appeared to suggest that after a brief period of international intervention, Afghanistan had once again resume...
(Un)knowing the Country: Empire & the Genesis of the Afghanistan Expertise Industry
By Martin J. Bayly
In light of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, Afghanistan is back in the news, and Afghanistan expertise is back in fashion. In this Long Read, Martin J. Bayly explores the imperial histories that...
