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An Analysis of Taliban Conflict in daily Dawn during Three Regimes in Pakistan

Journal of Peace, Development & Communication, 2023
This study analyzes news reports on the Taliban conflict published in the daily Dawn newspaper to identify the factors responsible for shifts in press narratives in an environment of diverse and conflicting voices over the period 2001-2015. The study shows different reporting patterns during the governments of the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-i-Azam ...
null Imran ul Haq, null Dr. Shabir Hussain, null Dr. Farrukh Shahzad   +2 more
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Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro, Sascha‐Dominik Dov Bachmann   +1 more
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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 Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand   +4 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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The interface between the area of freedom, security and justice and the common foreign and security policy of the European Union: legal constraints to political objectives [PDF]

, 2011
This paper argues that the objective of increased foreign policy coherence, as expressed in the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme of the European Union (EU), faces significant legal obstacles.
Van Elsuwege, Peter
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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

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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