Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

lines of conflict in Afghanistan. What this approach ignores is the fact that, despite the ethnicization of the conflict … with during the 23 years of ongoing war in Afghanistan, the significance of ethnicity as basis of political articulation … Afghanistan in past and present, and, secondly, how the international community has dealt with ethnicity in its endeavour to bring …

This paper discusses contesting notions of "the local" in Northeastern Afghanistan's Kunduz province. Empirical …

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …