Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the … democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and … multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US …

-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 …

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 …

As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a …

segments of the population through a range of mechanisms. We study the effects of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan … longer run 'propaganda' and 'revenge' effects. In Afghanistan we find strong evidence that local exposure to civilian … harm to civilians may indeed help counterinsurgent forces in Afghanistan to reduce insurgent recruitment …

System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …

Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and … country has fared less well, and many indicators have worsened in recent years. Afghanistan remains one of the world's least …

Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and … country has fared less well, and many indicators have worsened in recent years. Afghanistan remains one of the world's least …