Relations between Taliban-led Afghanistan and Pakistan have been largely tense over the past three years. Recently, Pakistan’s civilian leadership appeared to recognize the strategic and economic costs of continued tensions and sought to recalibrate ...
The relations between Tehran and Tashkent have experienced a growing trend in recent years. However, trade exchanges of less than one billion dollars, and the lack of mutual strategic dependencies can ...
Since centuries ago, Afghanistan has been a center for the game of powers, and the contradictory role of great and regional powers has had a great impact on the change of systems, political stability ...
The relations of Taliban- ruled Afghanistan with other countries can be considered in three categories: 1) Afghanistan's close neighbors, which are the most important economic partners of this country ...
Afghanistan never got the opportunity to build a state. In the 100-year history of this country, the process of becoming a nation-state was interrupted many times. Although the Taliban did not get the ...
There is one issue that has kept the Taliban government's foreign policy ambiguous in the region and at the international level: Whether the Taliban is trying to maintain Afghanistan's neutrality in the ...
The 9th summit of Turkic-speaking countries which was held in the form of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) summit on November 11 and 12, 2022 in the city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, had remarkable ...
In recent years, the demographic context in the major cities of Afghanistan has changed significantly due to the migration of villagers and the return of immigrants from abroad. This type of demographic ...
It is unlikely that there will be a succession crisis for the current leadership of the Taliban, and the group have had a distinctive track record in this regard. Using past experiences, the Taliban leaders ...
The history of Afghanistan shows that no government has managed so far to survive in Afghanistan without the support of regional and trans-regional countries, and no opposition military group has managed ...
The collapse of the republic and the rise of the Taliban to power made all forces inside and outside Afghanistan’s establishment to flee to other countries. Meanwhile, the only opposition force that was ...
Four out of Afghanistan's six neighbors are heavily dependent on the country's water resources. Afghanistan's efforts to control the surface water have raised growing concerns among the downstream countries,...
The issue of water in Afghanistan is a national and identity issue whose manifestation can be seen in the common proverbs of the country. Such an attitude shows that the identity and beliefs of the Afghan ...
Women's political participation in Pakistan depends directly on their academic education as well as their social status and family. Therefore, any collective activity by women in Pakistan is primarily ...
The role of the European Union (EU), as a political identity, in the international politics is remarkable. Politically, it is an important and influential actor in terms of defining strategy as well as ...
The future of the projects that connect Central Asia to South Asia by passing through Afghanistan depend on a number of factors whose realization needs creative solutions on the side of the Afghan officials....
After fall of the republic in Afghanistan, the focus has been more on the material and tangible consequences of this event rather than the mental and psychological ones. But the impacts of fall of the ...
Afghanistan's Shias, who make up 12 to 20 percent of the country's population, have always failed to play a significant role in the country's equations. After the rise of ISKP (Islamic State of Khorasan ...
The United States’ strategic approach towards cooperation with the Central Asian countries is a combination of two strategic benefits. It means, while Washington is pursuing the grand strategy of connecting ...
Cabinet officials announced by the Taliban are all members of the group itself and, except for three of them, selected from the Pashtuns. This cabinet can be analyzed from different perspectives. One ...
It is the duty of the both countries of Iran and Afghanistan to preserve the shared wetlands. The entry of human borders into this area has had very serious consequences for both sides. The continuation ...