Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2010

Afghanistan's hard summer: The impact on European troop contributing nations

Toby Archer, Timo Behr, Matthieu Chillaud, Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Valtteri Vuorisalo, Barbara Zanchetta

September 2009

Finnish Institute for International Affairs

Abstract

The summer of 2009 has been without a doubt a bad one for ISAF, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. The increase in fighting this summer has led to debates in most of the troop contributing nations as to how they perceive Afghanistan's future and their role in it.