What to expect?

Publications
Future publications will include reports on warlord governance, the politicisation of justice, and an analysis of the 2009 and 2010 elections.

Blogs
AAN members share their experiences as they try to make sense of Afghan society and politics.

Events
AAN actively seeks to disseminate key research findings and encourage substantive debate.

Links

The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN)

The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) is a non-profit, independent policy research organisation. It aims to bring together the knowledge, experience and drive of a large number of experts to better inform policy and to increase the understanding of Afghan realities. It is driven by engagement and curiosity and is committed to producing independent, high quality and research-based analysis on developments in Afghanistan. read more »

Recent blogs:

Campaign trail (3): the candidates and their strategies

While half of the world is on holiday and the other half is going through the wiki-leaked documents or is wondering how ... read more »

Wikileaks, Strategic Communications and (Im-)Plausible Denials

Wikileaks, with its publication of some 75,000 classified US military documents on the war in Afghanistan on Sunday, has... read more »

Kabul Conference (4): Don't Mention the War

The Kabul Conference has ended, the foreign ministers have left, the roads have reopened for traffic. Most Afghans seem ... read more »

Kabul Conference (3): More plans and programs, but what has happened to the earlier ones?

There are mixed feelings among Afghans on the eve of Kabul International Conference. Many people who are involved in con... read more »

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AAN in the media:

Holland geht, "M" bleibt (Holland Leaves, "M" Stays)

tageszeitung (Berlin), 28 July 2010

Was ist los in Afghanistan: Die Wikileaks-Papiere (What's Going on in Afghanistan: The Wikileaks Papers)

MDR (German radio), 27 July 2010

Afghanistan-Dokumente wecken Zweifel (Afghanistan Documents Raise Doubts)

Financial Times Deutschland, 27 July 2010

Stop Blaming the Afghans

The New Republic, 26 July 2010

Rethinking the Taliban and Going on the Defensive

The Media Line, 26 July 2010

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Recommended readings:

Extracting Change in Afghanistan’s Development Quagmire

Eurasianet.org, 29 July 2010

A City Tour for V.I.P.’s Attending the Kabul Conference

New York Times blog, 21 July 2010

Der lange Schatten der Taliban (The Long Shadow of the Taleban)

Frankfurter Allgemeine, 14 July 2010

'Fuck the Taliban': US-Soldaten in Kundus (US Soldiers in Kunduz)

dpa, 13 July 2010

Justice is missing from Afghanistan

Global Post, 13 July 2010

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