This report offers a critical examination of Iran's influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Two points are made: that …. Secondly, that Iran's engagements in Afghanistan are clearly guided by the presence of the US. Iran's predominant interest is … in stabilizing Afghanistan, but as long as Afghanistan is neither safe nor stable, Iran will play a double game and …

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the …

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 …

transparency in post 9/11 Afghanistan, this paper demonstrates that factors such as budget reforms, aid conditionality, legislature …

-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of … external funding. We find that NGOs being active in Afghanistan tended to benefit from easier access to official sources of …

farm level technical efficiency in Afghanistan. Data from a household level survey conducted in 2013-2004 by the Central …

, checkpoints form a key source of revenue for parties to the conflict. Whether in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo …