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Afghanistan: Back to the Future?

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Four months after the Taliban’s complete takeover of Afghanistan, where is it all going? What lies ahead for her & her neighbours?

Speakers

C. Uday Bhaskar [2] (@theUdayB) is Director, Society for Policy Studies [3], New Delhi, and one of India’s leading experts on geo-security, and publishes extensively on the subject.

Antonio Giustozzi [4] (@AntonioGiustoz2) is Visiting Professor, King’s College London [5], Fellow at RUSI [6], and the author of several books on the Taliban in Afghanistan including The Taliban at War: 2001-2018 [7] (2019).

Michael Kugelman [8] (@MichaelKugelman) is Deputy Director & Senior Associate for South Asia, Wilson Center [9], Washington DC, and a commentator on US strategy in South Asia.

Romain Malejacq [10] (@afghanopoly) is Assistant Professor, Radboud University [11], and the author of Warlord Survival: The Delusion of State Building in Afghanistan [12] (2020).

Ayesha Siddiqa [13] (@iamthedrifter) is Research Associate, SOAS South Asia Institute, an expert on security studies in Pakistan, and author of Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy [14] (2007).

Discussant

Christopher Coker [15] is Professor & Director, LSE IDEAS [16] (@lseideas), an expert on war, US security & terrorism, and author, most recently, of Why War? [17](2021).

Chair

Nilanjan Sarkar [20]is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre [21] (@SAsiaLSE).

This event is in collaboration with LSE IDEAS [16].

Banner image © Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona, ‘Stop killing Afghan Protest in London’, August 2021, Unsplash [22].