Afghan Hindsight, 25 October 2014 Blogger Tim Foxley was so nice to summarise my presentation at Malmö University in Sweden, an event i owe to an invitation from the renowned Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and that evening’s hosts from the Malmö chapter of the Association for Foreign Affairs. Tim found my presentation as follows: ‘mixed pessimism […]
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The Intercept, 21 October 2014 AAN’s first appearance, through a link, on Glenn Greenwald’s website, in a comment on the latest SIGAR report about the failed anti-narcotics strategy in Afghanistan. It says that “Experts at the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network have noted the expanding power of warlords in Afghanistan’s rural regions” and links to Obaid Ali’s 2013 […]
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Wall Street Journal, 13 October 2014 AAN’s Christian Bleuer is quoted here on IS Central Asian recruitment: Islamic State has already recruited extremists from Afghanistan’s northern neighbors, according to Christian Bleuer, an expert on Central Asia with the Kabul-based Afghan Analysts Network. “As far as their presence in Central Asia goes, they are mostly producing […]
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Das Blättchen, 13 October 2014 Article on the Afghan elections outcome, its impact on democratic institutions (in German).
AAN in the Media
Sydsvenskan Dagbladet, 13 October 2013 Guest article (translated by Anders Fänge) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in the Malmö-based daily on the Afghan elections, its outcome and the consequences of the many ongoing crises in the country. With announcements of Thomas’s two presentations in Southern Sweden on 14 and 15 October (Malmö and Lund). The headline […]
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Le Monde diplomatique, 10 October 2014 Article by Thomas Ruttig (with contributions and a photo by Obaid Ali) in the October issue of the international newspaper, discussing the chances and risks of the exploitation of Afghanistan’s mineral resources in conditions of war and international pressure to invest much of the income into the security sector. […]
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Stars and Stripes, 8 October 2014 Over the objections of human rights groups, the Afghan government on Wednesday executed five men convicted in the gang rape of four women, an incident that caused widespread outrage from the Afghan public. AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the article on the nature of the crime and the […]
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ZDF (heute.de), 5 October 2014 In a report on its website, the prime time news of Germany’s second public TV broadcaster ZDF report on the situation in Kunduz, one year after the Bundeswehr withdrawal from the province. It quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “Die Lage ist unübersichtlich. Die Provinz Kundus gehört zu den problematischsten Regionen im […]
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Deutsche Welle (online), 2 October 2014 Interview with AAN’s Martine van Bijlert on new president Ghani’s decree urging the re-opening of the Kabul Bank case. She concludes that: “The big question now is whether the judiciary will indeed treat the case differently than it has done in the past. Which is not just about the […]
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Voice of Russia, 2 October 2014 In its commentary about the signing of the US-Afghan BSA, the government-owned Russian media outlet (in its German service) picks up an old quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig – which remains valid: that the (now continuing) presence of western troops in Afghanistan contains “stabilising and destabilising factors” at the […]
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Detektor FM, 1 October 2014 Listen to an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) on Cologne-based campus radio, with a first assessment of the US-Afghan security cooperation agreement finally signed by the new government.
AAN in the Media
SRF4, 1 October 2014 Listen to an audio file of an interview by Swiss radio (in German, with a direct link) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, on the relationship between IS and Afghanistan. Main points: there is some IS propaganda activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan but no proven sign of Taleban joining the IS in masses. A […]
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