The Limits of nation-building in Afghanistan on August 31, 2017Perhaps the most striking of the key points in Donald Trump’s policy statement on Afghanistan and South Asia is the point stating that the United States of America will be “no longer nation-building” but just ‘killing terrorists’ in Afghanistan. While taking war and nation-building as two separate subjects, president Trump declared that the United States […]
Trumps Afghanistan strategy on August 21, 2017Donald Trump’s much-awaited strategy for Afghanistan and the South Asian region, which was reviewed for a final decision at Camp David on Friday and said to be announced ‘shortly’, is as unpredictable as his language. While keeping in view the absolute nature of US administration and the constraints of neoliberalism, this so-called first post-modern US […]