Ahmad in Foreign Affairs: What Drives Insider Attacks in Afghanistan?

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Ahmad in Foreign Affairs: What Drives Insider Attacks in Afghanistan?

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In the News

Apr 5, 2017

Ahmad in Foreign Affairs: What Drives Insider Attacks in Afghanistan?

By Javid Ahmad

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Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Mar 22, 2017

Russia’s Support for the Taliban Leaves Kabul Feeling Uneasy

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Afghan foreign minister sees threat to peace process Russia’s support for the Taliban—a terrorist group with which the United States has been at war for more than fifteen years and that is dedicated to overthrowing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government—is causing considerable unease in Afghanistan where officials worry it will undermine efforts to make peace […]

Afghanistan Pakistan

In the News

Feb 26, 2017

Ahmad in the National Interest: Will President Trump End the ‘Total Disaster’ War in Afghanistan?

By Javid Ahmad

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Afghanistan

In the News

Feb 23, 2017

Ahmad in the Wall Street Journal: To Save Afghanistan, Put Pressure on Pakistan

By Javid Ahmad

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Afghanistan Pakistan

In the News

Feb 8, 2017

Gopalaswamy Quoted by AP on Impact of Visa Changes on US-India Relations

By Bharath Gopalaswamy

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India

New Atlanticist

Feb 7, 2017

An Opportunity for Regional Leadership in South Asia

By Yelena Biberman

US President Donald Trump’s likely hands-off policy toward South Asia may provide an opportunity for Pakistan and India to address longstanding disputes and reap the long-awaited benefits of cooperation. While there is significant uncertainty about the next four years of US diplomacy, it is unlikely that Trump will succeed where so many before him failed. […]

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New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

Trump’s Foreign Policy Opportunities in South Asia

By Shuja Nawaz

Tighten your seat belts! South Asia, along with much of the rest of the world, should get ready for a more muscular, business-like, and unorthodox foreign policy under US President Donald Trump. His team of security and foreign policy experts, many of whom have unorthodox backgrounds and credentials, will help him implement a more personalized […]

Afghanistan

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

India Warily Watches Trump

By Maya Mirchandani

Americans may still be coming to terms with Donald Trump’s election victory, but more than 7,000 miles away, the wheels of India’s diplomatic machinery began turning soon after the November results. Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval both visited the United States within a month of the elections with the […]

India

New Atlanticist

Feb 2, 2017

What Can India Expect from the New Abnormal in US Foreign Policy?

By Gaurav Kampani

Donald Trump’s election as the next president of the United States not only poses a threat to the American liberal-constitutional democratic order at home, but it also threatens to end the international liberal economic and democratic order that successive US administrations have built and promoted during and in the aftermath of the Cold War. The […]

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Jan. 19, 2016

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Jan 26, 2017

NATO Chief Confident Trump is Committed to the Alliance

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

One key element in that is to make sure that we have a strong transatlantic bond also in this new security environment

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Stanislava Mladenova

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Kate Springs

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Jongsun Kim

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David H. Young

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