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AAN in the Media

An Endgame in the Endless War

Slate, 5 April 2021 Two quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this analysis by the US magazine of the The Biden administration’s search “for a way to get out—and stay out—of Afghanistan.” The first one on US co-responsibility for the current situation (ongoing and escalated war, not peace; high poverty levels instead of successful reconstruction) […]

AAN in the Media

Afghanistan: Winning the War or Building a State?

ODI blog, 31 March 2021 In this short analysis of Western-funded security sector institution building and reform as well as of the current status of the ANSF main forces (except the NDS), the author states that “the objective of ‘winning the war’ has frequently undermined the very state that was being built” and that “[t]he […]

AAN in the Media

Die Abschiebeoase: Das Hotel »Spinzar« in Kabul als erste Anlaufstelle für zurückgewiesene Geflüchtete

nd, 31 March 2021 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig quoted in the Berlin based daily on Germany’s and Austria’s asylum policies on Afghanistan in this reportage by Emran Feroz about Kabul’s Spinzar Hotel, a transitional shelter for deported unsuccessful Afghan asylum seekers without a place or family to go to in Afghanistan (in German): Thomas Ruttig, Co-Direktor […]

AAN in the Media