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Thomas Ruttig

Ontwikkeling: Het budget smelt, vragen bij impact

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Mondiaal Nieuws, 20 May 2014 The Belgian news website quotes from a recent AAN paper by Thomas Ruttig in an article about the ongoing discussion about development cooperation in Belgium: “Thomas Ruttig, [co-]directeur van het Afghanistan Academics Netwerk, citeert daarover in een recente MO* paper [which in fact is the translation of an AAN paper] een rapport van […]

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Afghanistan muss in die Stichwahl Ring frei für Runde Zwei

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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 16 May 2014 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig summarises the outcome of the first round of voting in p Afghanistan’s presidential elections, pointing out that voters have started to not vote along ‘traditional’ ethnic patterns and that further surprises can be expcted in round 2.

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Outgoing Afghan leader not going anywhere, to U.S. chagrin

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Reuters, 13 May 2014 In an article looking at the future of outgoing Afghan president Hamed Karzai, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of independent research organization Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul, says Karzai has positioned himself well to stay in the political game. “Karzai successfully has worked with all major contenders for […]

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Slippery Slopes: Ecological, social and developmental aspects of the Badakhshan landslide disaster

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A huge double landslide, of possibly unprecedented proportions, destroyed parts of a village in Badakhshan’s Argo district and killed a still unconfirmed number of people on 2 May. AAN Senior Analyst Thomas Ruttig looks at the combination of causes of this disaster including the long-term effects of global warming impacting large parts of South Asia, local […]

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How Progressives Got Afghanistan Wrong

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Jacobin magazine, 6 May 2014 “The ‘decent Left’ was wrong: a blood soaked occupation did not lead to a promising post-Taliban future” writes Greg Shupak in the “magazine of culture and polemics” and quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on socio-economic developments: Thomas Ruttig of Afghanistan Analysis Network writes that “economic activity in general [is] falling,” unemployment […]

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May Day on Workers Street: Trade unions and the status of labour in Afghanistan

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More than 1,000 Afghan men and women took to the street on International Labour Day on 1 May. With the country’s latest mining disaster, killing at least 24 workers only one day earlier, the participants had one acute problem to address: workers’ safety in the mining sector. However, the new leadership of Afghanistan’s largest trade […]

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Afganistan’ın geleceği muğlak

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T24, 28 April 2014 In an article by this Turkish news channel on the anniversary of the left-wing “Saur revolution”, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted here (apparently through Deutsche Welle): Afgan Analistler Ağı’ndan Afganistan uzmanı Thomas Ruttig de Afgan güvenlik güçlerinin ISAF’ın çekilmesinin ardından sorumluluğu tek başına üstlenmeye hazır olduğu konusunda şüpheli. Ruttig, Afgan güvenlik […]

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Lull Prompts Question: What Are Taliban Up To?

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New York Times, 28 April 2014 In an article trying to make sense of the Taleban’s relative inactivity on Afghan election day and after, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted: “They [the Taleban] want to be recognized as a legitimate party. Why else do they call themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and not the Taliban […]

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Chancen und Illusionen: Afghanistan-Anhörung mit gemischter Zwischenbilanz zu zwölf Jahren ISAF-Einsatz

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Das Parlament, 7 April 2014 The German weekly with specialisation on parliamentary affairs, reports about a public Afghanistan hearing in the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, in which AAN’s Thomas Ruttig was one of the penalists.

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Under Fire: The status of the 2014 election observation

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Election observers can play a useful role, nudging – both directly and through their governments – Afghan election authorities towards greater transparency and accountability, writes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. However, this year’s international observer missions have, compared to the elections in 2009 and 2010, shrunk significantly. This is for different reasons, among them organisations’ fear to […]

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External publication (in German): Militarisierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (The Militarisation of Aid)

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Afghanistan Info (Neuchâtel), March 2014 (not online) Thomas Ruttig, “Militarisierung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Der jüngste Afghanistan-Krieg als Auslöser eines Besorgnis erregenden Trend” (Militarisation of Development Cooperation: The recent Afghanistan war as trigger of a concerning trend), Afghanistan Info, Neuchâtel, no. 74 (March 2014), pp 8-9. Issue no 74 of the publication of the Swiss Committee for the Support of […]

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Afghan security fears, power shift rattle investors

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Asiatic Review, 27 March 2014 In this article about possible economic repercussions of the upcoming Afghan elections, AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini is quoted: Fabrizio Foschini, a political analyst at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said it was hard to predict whether the presidential election will worsen the security situation. “If there is an impression among the […]

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