International Affairs / Afghanistan and Its Region
The project featuring an international task force co-chaired by Ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas Pickering, has released its report, Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace. It recommends a political path that might lead to ending the war. TCF received major support for the project from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and additional support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung of Germany and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Read the press release.
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Afghanistan and Its Region – All Content
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Blog Post: Thankless Negotiations with Afghan AlliesWhile the foreign military presence touches many raw nerves, Afghans appear to recognize the international community’s contribution to the improvements that large majorities see in education, road construction, water supply, and health careNov 21, 2012
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TCF Fellow Michael Wahid Hanna quoted in Wired.Oct 2, 2012
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Blog Post: Re-Writing History—The Afghan Surge VersionJun 27, 2012
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The unraveling reported this week of U.S. police training programs in both Iraq and Afghanistan opens yet another window onto the strategic...May 17, 2012
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Blog Post: The Problem with Obama's Afghanistan SpeechSo two days ago, President Obama traveled to Afghanistan to remind people that he killed Osama bin Laden a year earlier . . . and while he was...May 3, 2012
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After going through twenty-three drafts, the United States and Afghanistan have at last inked a framework strategic partnership agreement to govern...Apr 23, 2012
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In The News: Afghans Take Control of Night RaidsMichael Cohen quoted in Wall Street Journal.Apr 9, 2012
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In The News: Will America ‘Win’ in Afghanistan?Fellow Michael Wahid Hanna participates in the Council for Foreign Relations blog's Ask the Experts.Apr 3, 2012
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Carnegie Corporation President Vartan Gregorian mentions Carnegie's support for the TCF Afghanistan Task Force at the US Afghan Women's council 10th anniversary meeting - headlined by Secretary Clinton, Zalmai Rassoul, and Barbara Bush.Mar 22, 2012
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Blog Post: Give Peace a Chance . . . in AfghanistanReading Steve Coll's latest take on the situation in Afghanistan has left me scratching my head—in particular, this paragraph of...Mar 19, 2012
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With plans for both its options for orderly disengagement from Afghanistan upended this week by a staff sergeant’s massacre of 16 Afghan...Mar 16, 2012
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Look, I understand that when you're an unabashed believer in U.S. military interventions it can be difficult to keep one's own argument straight,...Mar 16, 2012
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In The News: Afghan war is hell; let's get the hell outMichael Cohen quoted in Al Neuharth's USA TODAY column.Mar 16, 2012
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Blog Post: The Lindsey Graham Clown ShowOver the last three years, I've read some pretty clownish things about the war in Afghanistan, but yesterday's comments by Lindsay Graham should win...Mar 15, 2012
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The startling explosion of public rage across Afghanistan at the bone-headed burning of Qurans by U.S. forces there has shaken the already tenuous...Feb 29, 2012
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Blog Post: Cutting and Running in AfghanistanOver at Foreign Policy I have a new post up looking at the politics of Afghanistan withdrawal—and why ending not one not two wars a year...Feb 3, 2012
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In The News: Cutting and Running in AfghanistanFellow Michael Cohen writes in Foreign Policy on what makes good politics for Obama.Feb 3, 2012
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Blog Post: Slow-Motion Rush to an Afghan PeaceAfghan president Hamid Karzai is feeling rushed.Jan 5, 2012
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TCF Afghanistan report cited in Reuters article.Jan 4, 2012
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Whatever may have triggered the two-hour attack by NATO war planes on Pakistan’s Mohmand border posts in the pre-dawn hours of November 26, not...Nov 28, 2011
