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A Model for Stability? The Musahiban Dynasty in Afghanistan

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For over ten years, policy gurus have argued over ideal methods to counter security and development problems in Afghanistan. As the insurgency escalated in the countryside, stability approaches evolved to an extensive focus on village-based, grassroots initiatives....

Spies in the Maize: Control and Discipline in the Malawi Young Pioneers

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Paramilitary groups are a double-edged sword: while many serve with state authority to protect civilians against terror, resistance, and criminality, others prey on the population while engaging in criminal enterprise and destabilizing local communities. The Malawi...

Kandahar’s Enforcers Fight Evil with Brutality

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General Abdul Raziq is one of the more prominent cases of the warlord paradox shaped by the U.S. state-building agenda in Afghanistan. Labeled by some as a warlord and others a hero, Raziq is the reigning police chief of Kandahar province, with a near mythic stature....

Shoulder to Shoulder No More in Afghanistan?

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The slogans and pageantry following the rollout of the Trump Doctrine has left U.S. partners and allies in South Asia with much to be anxious about. What does an “America First” foreign policy look like for them? How will this change the currents of a 15-year state...
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