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Taliban and Afghan Peace Officials Have Secret Talks in China

Afghan government representatives said at the meeting that it was ready to make an effort to build trust, if the Taliban agreed to peace negotiations.

Read the full New York Times article Taliban and Afghan Peace Officials Have Secret Talks in China

Publication Date: May 25, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Wake Up, Pakistan

Hosted by The Century Foundation with remarks from CIC's Barnett Rubin

Event Date: May 14, 2015

Author(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Pakistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Barnett Rubin Gives Keynote Speech on Afghanistan at the Danish Institute for International Studies

Lessons learned from pursuing civil-military coherence

In April 2015, CIC Associate Director Barnett Rubin joined the Danish Institute for International Studies for a seminar on Afghanistan's recent history and lessons learned from pursuing civil-military coherence. He kicked off the discussions with a keynote speech on Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014.

Event Date: Apr 23, 2015

Author(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: Europe, South Asia, Afghanistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

For Ghani wooing Washington is the easy part of his job

President Ghani’s trip to Washington this week is like pressing the reset button for Afghan-American ties. While the Obama administration is satisfied so far with his early performance, he faces an uphill battle at home.

Read the full Deutsche Welle article For Ghani wooing Washington is the easy part of his job

Publication Date: Apr 01, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: United States, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan

Ghani’s Gambit

President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan is proposing to improve Afghanistan’s contentious relations with Pakistan in the hope of paving the way toward both peace with the Taliban and regional economic cooperation.

Publication Date: Mar 18, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

Can China Help Rebuild Afghanistan?

CIC Associate Director Barnett Rubin and Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund Andrew Small assess Beijing’s role in improving the historically tense relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Publication Date: Mar 09, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, Central Asia, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan

China’s Role in Afghanistan

CIC Associate Director, Barnett Rubin, recently shared his thoughts with The New York Times on China’s growing engagement with Afghan politics.

Publication Date: Feb 20, 2015

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: China, South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States

Former senior U.S. official Barnett Rubin will speak at SFU Woodward's on future of Afghanistan

Barnett Rubin acknowledges that Afghanistan is marred by ethnic conflicts, corruption, and poverty. But the former senior adviser to President Barack Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (Richard Holbrooke) says there are still signs of significant progress since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001.

Publication Date: Nov 19, 2014

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Crises, Fragile States, South Asia

Lecture: What Will Happen to Afghanistan After the NATO Forces Leave?

CIC Director Dr. Barnett Rubin spoke at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, with an eye toward Canadian involvement in the NATO mission in Afghanistan. With the end of that operation in December 2014, what will become of that country, in which Canada and its NATO allies have invested so much? Dr. Rubin presents his analysis, based on decades of first-hand experience in a lecture and discussion available below.

What Will Happen to Afghanistan After the NATO Forces Leave?

Event Date: Nov 27, 2014

Author(s): Barnett Rubin

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Fragile States

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Introducing CIC’s Afghanistan Constitutional Reform Resources Webpage

Afghanistan’s recent presidential elections have resulted in a historic undertaking: the country will reform its constitution in the next two years. To assist the process, CIC is sharing research papers commissioned during the previous drafting process in 2002. Here, CIC Director Barnett Rubin and Research Associate Said Sabir Ibrahimi explain the history and resources available on the : Afghanistan Constitutional Reform Resources Webpage.

Publication Date: Oct 28, 2014

Author(s): Barnett Rubin, Said Sabir Ibrahimi

Region/Country: South Asia, Afghanistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project