Documentación Asia Central
Filling the Void: Dispatch from Afghanistan by Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 26, 2009
The United States chose President Hamid Karzai to succeed the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 mainly because of his closeness to the Bush administration. Karzai is believed to have won another term in a disputed election last week, but the results are still unclear, and he may face a run-off in...
The 2009 Afghan Elections and the Future of the International Community in Afghanistan by Jeremy Shapiro. Brookings, August 13, 2009
Pundits around the world will be carefully scrutinizing the Afghan elections for what they say about the situation in Afghanistan. They should be paying more attention to what the elections reveal about the international community – in other words, what they reveal about us.
How Opium Profits the Taliban by Gretchen Peters.United States Institute of Peace, August 2009
In Afghanistan’s poppy-rich south and southwest, a raging insurgency intersects a thriving opium trade. This study examines how the Taliban profit from narcotics, probes how traffickers influence the strategic goals of the insurgency, and considers the extent to which narcotics are changing the...