Part of Tehran’s outreach to the Taliban has been to blame Afghanistan’s chaos on the US. But, past events suggest that the Taliban is no friend of Iran.
Academic inquiry should go beyond categorisation to understand what pushes migrants to seek alternative permanencies elsewhere, and under what conditions.
Afghanistan is not the graveyard of empires, it is the graveyard of strategy.
Maritime spaces are political zones. In these spaces, agents manifest their interests and pursue their strategies based on the distribution of material and ideational resources.
The lack of domination structures through which imperial or state power can be exerted strains, and renders futile, the capabilities of the occupying force.
We still do not know exactly how the Taliban will rule Afghanistan. Yet, experience suggests that many Afghans have much to fear – especially women and the Shi’a.
Astonishment at the fall of Kabul reflect habits of imperial abstraction, moral displacement and hubris that are prefigured in Thucydides writings about ancient Greece.
A pluralist vision of creative legitimation sets a large and ambitious theoretical agenda for a post-Westphalian global order that has been gestating for a century or more.
Considering the cases two Indian states, it is evident that the population policies in both are driven by ‘demographic fears’ stemming from Islamophobia.
An earlier, more liberal, Afghanistan possessed strong female figures and dynamic student societies in a civil society accustomed to the concept of protest.
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