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China Will Regret India's Entry Into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman
Jul 24, 2017
The Diplomat
Russia first proposed India as a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization likely in part to complement bilateral economic and security engagement, but mainly to constrain China's growing influence in the organization.
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Afghanistan
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How Trump Should Manage Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones @SethGJones
Mar 21, 2017
Foreign Affairs
While media coverage has focused on Syria and Iraq, Afghanistan remains an important frontline state in the fight against terrorism. The Trump administration should aim to prevent the Taliban from overthrowing the Afghan government, encourage political reconciliation, and pursue terrorists that threaten the United States.
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Afghanistan
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The Islamic State-Taliban Rivalry in Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones @SethGJones
Nov 28, 2016
Lawfare
The weakening of the Islamic State is a positive step. But Taliban successes against the group have strengthened the Taliban's power, bolstered its reputation, and complicated U.S. and Afghan government efforts to wind down the Afghan war.
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South Asia
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Could the Kashmir Standoff Trigger Nuclear War?
Rafiq Dossani, Jonah Blank
Oct 10, 2016
Newsweek
Militants trained in Pakistan have been raiding the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir for over a quarter of a century, but the recent attack was the deadliest in years. A short-term return to peace remains uncertain and the longer term is even harder to predict.
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Afghanistan
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The Taliban's Persistent Threat
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins
Apr 21, 2016
The Cipher Brief
The United States and its NATO allies have been scaling back their military commitment in Afghanistan. The Taliban, in response, have been scaling up their operations, inflicting unprecedented heavy casualties on Afghan government forces and gaining increased control over much of the countryside.
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Afghanistan
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Pakistan Holds the Key to Peace in Afghanistan
Zalmay Khalilzad, James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins
Jan 11, 2016
Newsweek
Sustained and intensified U.S. pressure on Pakistan offers the only viable path to advancing the Afghan reconciliation process in a way that does not turn Afghanistan into a launching pad for terrorism and extremism.
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International Diplomacy
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Pakistan and China's Almost Alliance
Jonah Blank
Oct 16, 2015
Foreign Affairs
Policymakers in the United States and throughout Asia should take note of why the Sino-Pakistani relationship has endured for so long, what each partner gets from the other, and what inherent limitations prevent the union from developing into a true alliance.
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Afghanistan
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More Boots Isn't Enough to Save Afghanistan
Jeff Eggers
Oct 16, 2015
Politico
Until there is a viable political strategy for Afghanistan, any modicum of U.S. troops is, at best, playing not to lose. Doing better than that will require promoting three dimensions of political change in Afghanistan and between Kabul and Islamabad.
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Security Cooperation
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Afghanistan, Choose Your Enemies Wisely
Jeff Eggers
Aug 24, 2015
Foreign Policy
The Taliban's new leadership may be the last decent opportunity for a political solution to the conflict. Without a solution, the Islamic State could make Afghanistan the next Iraq or Syria.
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Pakistan
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Pakistan's Shocking Strategic Shift
Sameer Lalwani
Aug 12, 2015
The National Interest
Pakistan's security policies have experienced striking but underappreciated shifts since 2001 along three dimensions: aggressive behavior, strategic orientation, and self-examination. These shifts warrant a reexamination by international security analysts of their of assumptions about Pakistan and their theories of strategic stability and instability in South Asia.
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Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
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Afghanistan After the Drawdown
Stephen Watts, Sean Mann
Jul 6, 2015
Lawfare
If neither victory nor a political settlement are likely in the short term, and if complete withdrawal is unpalatable, then the United States must ensure that its support of Afghanistan remains politically sustainable.
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Security Cooperation
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What Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Want from Each Other
Jonah Blank
Jun 17, 2015
Foreign Affairs
Whatever overlapping interests they may have in dangerous groups like Lashkar-e Taiba, the Saudis and Pakistanis have much bigger reasons for seeking each other's friendship. These reasons may be largely transactional, but the transaction has been a mutually beneficial one for nearly 40 years.
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The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)
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Expanding the Caliphate
Seth G. Jones @SethGJones
Jun 12, 2015
Foreign Affairs
ISIS in South Asia, which it calls the Islamic State of Khorasan, is larger than most recognize, boasting between several hundred and several thousand fighters. But for now, it is closer to a loose affiliate than a direct arm of the organization.
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The Islamic State (Terrorist Organization)
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Has Islamic State Entered Afghanistan?
S. Rebecca Zimmerman @_rebeccaz
May 4, 2015
World Affairs Journal
The bulk of the Islamic State of Khorasan is thought to be in Pakistan, but the group is trying to make inroads into Afghanistan. That said, the group's actual ability to operate in Afghanistan appears rather limited.
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Terrorist Organizations
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Let's Talk About Kashmir
Jonah Blank
Sep 8, 2014
Foreign Policy
When U.S. combat troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan in December 2014, and training units follow two years later, the dynamics that once turned northern India's Kashmir into both a target and an incubator of global terrorism may return. This would threaten U.S. security, as well as that of the region.
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Pakistan
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Book Review: A Reporter Analyzes the Driving Role of Pakistan in the Afghan War
Seth G. Jones @SethGJones
Apr 11, 2014
NYTimes.com
With its focus on Pakistan, Gall's “The Wrong Enemy” is a valuable contribution to a body of work on the American war in Afghanistan that has become stale and hackneyed. It provides a raw, unvarnished look at one of the darkest and least understood parts of the war.
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Pakistan

China Will Regret India's Entry Into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

How Trump Should Manage Afghanistan

The Islamic State-Taliban Rivalry in Afghanistan

Could the Kashmir Standoff Trigger Nuclear War?

The Taliban's Persistent Threat

Pakistan Holds the Key to Peace in Afghanistan

Pakistan and China's Almost Alliance

More Boots Isn't Enough to Save Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Choose Your Enemies Wisely

Pakistan's Shocking Strategic Shift

Afghanistan After the Drawdown

What Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Want from Each Other

Expanding the Caliphate

Has Islamic State Entered Afghanistan?

Let's Talk About Kashmir

Book Review: A Reporter Analyzes the Driving Role of Pakistan in the Afghan War

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