RUSI NewsbriefVOLUME 39ISSUE 9members only

What About the Afghan State? US Interests Reach Beyond Counterterrorism

James M Page
4 October 2019clock19 Minute Read
inked finger purple Afghanistan election

A voter displays his inked finger to show that he voted in the 2009 Afghanistan election. Courtesy of US Department of Defense/Wikimedia

The cancellation of the US peace agreement with the Taliban not only reasserts the importance of elections in Afghanistan, but also wider US interests in the Afghan state. 

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