Afghanistan is teetering on the brink of an almost unimaginable disaster. The withdrawal of US and allied forces, scheduled by President Joe Biden to be completed by September 11, threatens to precipitate the unravelling of the most pro-Western government in Southwest Asia. It also endangers the entire framework of the Afghan state that has been […]
Author Archives: William Maley
Professor William Maley is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, and is author of Rescuing Afghanistan (2006), What is a Refugee? (2016), Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding (2018), The Afghanistan Wars (3rd ed, 2021), and Diplomacy, Communication and Peace: Selected Essays (2021). He and Dr Niamatullah Ibrahimi are co-authors of Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State (2020).