Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 11/2010

The Political Future of Afghanistan

Radha Kumar, Fabrice Pothier, Waliullah Rahmani

October 2010

Centre for European Policy Studies

Abstract

Growing insurgency threatens Afghanistan internally while regional ambitions threaten to tear the nation apart from the outside. The post-Taliban democratic state faces existential strategic threats as a consequence. This collection of European Security Forum papers, prepared for the final Security Forum in Brussels in March of this year, brings together the views of three experts on what is needed to secure and consolidate peace in Afghanistan.