Florian P. Kühn is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. He has published widely on Afghanistan, statebuilding and interventions, including in Peacebuilding, International Relations, Third World Quarterly, International Peacekeeping and Civil Wars. He is co-editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and author of several books on interventions, Afghanistan, reconstruction, and risk. He has previously held positions at Humboldt University, Otto von Guericke University, Helmut Schmidt University. In 2019-2020 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (GCR21) in Duisburg.