Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Mulling for President?
Recent reports that Abdul Qayum Karzai, a brother of President Karzai, was planning to run for president in 2014 have caused a stir.
Believing in the Ritual?
My colleague Bill Byrd has just written a provocative but thoughtful piece on the limits of what large, international conferences can achieve for Afghanistan. Whatever the benefits are of keeping Afghanistan on the international agenda, Bill is rightly skeptical that these large conferences often confuse talk for action, and raise expectations that are invariably disappointed.
Afghanistan after Tokyo
The U.S. and international community are focused on the security transition in Afghanistan but must not ignore the major political and economic transition expected to occur over the next two years, according to a number of experts who spoke on two off-the-record panels at USIP last week.
