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Ann Wilkens

A Lot to Worry About: Pakistan on the Eve of Elections

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The election in Pakistan on 11 May 2013 is just around the corner – but it has not drawn much attention in international media. A new AAN Briefing Paper by Ann Wilkens, ‘A Lot to Worry About: Pakistan on the Eve of Its First Democratic Transition’, who is a member of AAN’s Advisory Board, looks […]

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Another Pakistan Is Needed: Can Openings Emerge Post-Osama bin Laden?

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This latest discussion paper by Ann Wilkens, Advisory Board member of the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) outlines key political challenges facing Pakistan and relevant for Afghanistan. The focus of the report is on possible political openings after the killing of Osama bin Laden. While still too early to speak of Pakistan as a failed state, […]

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Talibanrörelsens uppkomst och drivkrafter: en bakgrund inför Bonn II-konferensen om Afghanistan i december 2011

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Ann Wilkens, FOI (Stockholm), background paper FOI-R–3243–SE, August 2011 (in Swedish) From the summary: The aim to this study is to give an in depth description of those destructive forces, inside and outside of Afghanistan, that oppose the international intervention and contend its goals. Over the last few years, the Afghan Taliban have expanded their […]

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Pakistan in 2010

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While the world is discussing strategies to exit Afghanistan, the crisis in neighbouring Pakistan is deepening. What the silent majority of Pakistanis voted for in the elections of February 2008 – a secular democracy – is proving elusive. The army has since reemerged as a major political actor and the Taleban are gaining ground. This […]

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Ann Wilkens: Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan

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In: Kristina Zetterlund (ed.), Pakistan – Consequences of Deteriorating Security in Afghanistan, Stockholm: FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) January 2009, pp. 88-107 This book which contains contributions by Rohan Gunaratna, Imtiaz Gul, Stephen Cohen and others was part of a project on security policy development in Pakistan. Full publication available below: Ann Wilkens: Relations between […]

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