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Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Topic(s): Fragile States, United Nations

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Reimagining U.S. Asia Policy for a Peaceful Afghanistan

This policy paper by Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow at CIC examines how the Afghan peace process provides the United States with an opportunity to pivot to a strategy that frees it from dependence on military bases in the landlocked backyard of Russia and China, and how that can provide it with an entry point to an expanded and more effective Asia policy focused on some of the most vital threats confronting humanity.

Publication Date: Jan 06, 2021

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

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Topic(s): Afghanistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Technology and the Future of Work

Recent decades have seen rapid increases in the use of robots and rapid advances in artificial intelligence, driven particularly by improvements in machine learning. From games like chess and Go to speech recognition and image recognition, machines have come to outperform humans in an expanding range of activities. This development has motivated many attempts to gauge the impact on the future of work for humans.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

Region/Country: East Asia, Europe, United States, South Asia, India

Topic(s): International Security, Transnational Threats

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

The Just Transition in Energy

With each new year of data, and each new intergovernmental report, it becomes harder to deny the scale and urgency of the energy transition required to prevent catastrophic anthropogenic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges countries to take action to prevent a rise in temperature by more than 1.5°C, and warns of catastrophic consequences of a rise above 2°C. Yet current policies and pledges fall far short of hitting these targets.

Publication Date: Dec 18, 2020

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Ian Goldin

Region/Country: China, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, United States, South Asia, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Crises, International Security

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

There Is Only One Way Out of Afghanistan

For Foreign Affairs, CIC senior fellow Barnett Rubin writes that the only way out of Afghanistan requires cooperation with regional powers.

Read the full column in Foreign Affairs here.

Publication Date: Dec 09, 2020

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

Region/Country: China, Central Asia, East Asia, Middle East, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan

CIC's Barnett Rubin Addresses Arria-Formula Meeting on Afghanistan at the Security Council

CIC, Barnett Rubin, Arria-Formula, Afghanistan

At the most recent Arria-formula meeting on Afghanistan on November 27, 2017, Barnett Rubin spoke on the importance of regional approaches in fostering development and peace. In his talk, Partners for Afghanistan: Linking Security, Development and Peace in the Central Asian Region.

Publication Date: Nov 28, 2017

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

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

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

For Help in America’s Longest War, Trump Tilts Political Balance Toward India Over Pakistan

Three American presidents have spent nearly 16 years alternately cajoling, coaxing, threatening and bombing Pakistan, all with a goal of trying to change the Pakistani government’s decisions about the factions it supports in Afghanistan’s desperate civil war.

Publication Date: Aug 23, 2017

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

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

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan, Transnational Threats

China-India-US cooperation in Afghanistan could have huge potential

India’s decision to boycott China’s Belt and Road Forum has reinvigorated the much-needed debate on the strategic relationship between the two Asian giants. This debate comes on the heels of the February 23, 2017 India-China Strategic Dialogue in Beijing, where the two states found, among their divergences, a convergence on Afghanistan that contradicts some of Delhi’s received wisdom.

Publication Date: May 26, 2017

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

Region/Country: China, United States, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, South Asia

The "Graveyard Of Empires"

CNN's Fareed Zakaria in a recent report on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan highlights Barnett Rubin's War on the Rocks article "It's much bigger than Afghanistan: U.S. strategy for a transformed Region".

Publication Date: May 02, 2017

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

Region/Country: China, Middle East, South Asia, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Crises, Humanitarian Crises

It's Much Bigger Than Afghanistan: U.S. Strategy for a Transformed Region

Whether launching a few missiles at a Syrian air base, sailing an aircraft carrier toward North Korea (or not), dropping MOAB, or sending more troops to Afghanistan, tactical demonstrations of U.S. strength not tied to strategic objectives sooner rather than later deteriorate into bloody demonstrations of futility.

Publication Date: Apr 25, 2017

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

Region/Country: China, United States, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project

Topic(s): Afghanistan, Emerging Powers, International Security, South Asia