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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Rights in Post-U.S. Afghanistan: Assessing the Impact of the Taliban's Return on Gender Equality

Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies
This research explores the regression of women's rights and gender equality in Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021.
Ramez Shuja
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Explaining the Reasons Behind the Re-Domination of the Taliban in Afghanistan Based on Dekmejian’s Theory of Periodic Movements [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat
IntroductionFollowing the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the subsequent overthrow of the Taliban government, extensive efforts were made to rebuild the Afghan nation-state and establish a democratic political system.
Zahed Ghaffari Hashjin, Mohsen Karimi Shiroodi   +1 more
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The military-political situation in Central Asia in the context of the growing instability in Afghanistan

Вестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2022
The Central Asian region due to its economic potential and strategic signifi -cance has traditionally been of particular importance for Russia’s foreign policy.
Z. A. Kokoshina
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Do Women Make Better Borrowers and Loan Officers? Evidence From Afghanistan

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how gender is associated with microfinance loan performance in Afghanistan, a conservative and conflict‐affected society. We use data from over 9500 borrowers across Taliban‐ and government‐controlled areas for the period from January 2017 to February 2020, before the 2021 Taliban takeover.
Mustafa Disli, Shakir Jalaly, Laurent Weill   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging Patriarchal Culture of Taliban Regime: A Woman Struggles in Qaderi’s Dancing in The Mosque

Journal of Language and Literature
Afghanistan, during the Taliban regime, has traditionally been shaped by patriarchal cultural norms and values that limit women’s rights and opportunities.
Epata Puji Astuti
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Reações fundamentalistas – Taliban e o terror conveniente

Diálogos, 2017
Este artigo pretende apresentar a relação entre a formação do Regime Taliban e os interesses estratégicos na Ásia Central e, assim, demonstrar o quanto a retórica da luta anti-terrorismo em nome dos valores democráticos é, na verdade, contra os seus ...
Alexander Martins Vianna
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Afghanistan: conflict and displacement 1978 to 2001 [PDF]

Forced Migration Review, 2002
The tragic events of 11 September 2001 and thesubsequent US-led military action againstAfghanistan’s Taliban regime and al-Qa’ida thrustAfghanistan into the international spotlight andfinally placed it on the agenda of senior policy makersworldwide. What
Hiram A Ruiz
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

With All Our Strength

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2005
Anne Brodsky’s With All Our Strength provides an ethnographic study of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). This organization was founded in 1977 by the enigmatic Meena as “the first independent feminist women’s organization ...
Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims
doaj   +1 more source