This research examines the differences between the perceptions of the U.S.-led international intervention actors and the Afghan population, particularly in the area of security and justice over the period between 2001 and 2006. Understanding these perceptions was instructive in …
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This thesis analyzes the literary themes of Pashto poetry including landeys (popular verse), Taliban literature (propaganda, poetry and chants), and poetry concerning Pashtunwali (code of honor). This thesis attempts to use poetry as a conceptual apparatus to better understand s…
Heroin prices are a reflection of supply and demand, and similar to any other market, profits motivate participation. The intent of this research is to examine the change in Afghan opium production due to political conflict affecting Europe's heroin market and government policie…
This study arose from the desire to research the effectiveness of state building policies in Afghanistan. In order to address this topic, I review state building literature and find that state building literature focuses largely on the processes of democratization instead of ins…
The initial hypothesis of this dissertation was that Afghan insurgents' attacks on Afghan civilians have lowered popular confidence in the Afghan government and its institutions. The goal of the insurgents has been to convince Afghans that their local, provincial, and national g…
America's longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to the war in Afghanistan. The United States must decide the best alternative for ending the war and it must decide now. The U.S. has limited time to make meaningful progress on the…
This thesis reviews the history of Afghanistan and the current counterinsurgency strategy. Military and political leaders ignored cultural and religious affairs inherent to the country in their planning of the invasion after the events of 9-11. This paper goes on to highlight th…
The battle was clumsy, but decisive. It was won by the combined efforts of American Armed Forces, Afghan ground forces, Canadian Light Infantry, and special forces from a variety of nations. It was a pick-up fight that started off badly, but training, good will, and professional…
Igniting the Tinderbox is intended as a nonfiction book and teacher's guide for middle school students to supplement the texts in the social studies curriculum. The book is a snapshot of Afghanistan between 1989 and 1996 as seen through the eyes of a middle school-aged Afghan bo…
After nearly a decade of war in Afghanistan, military and government officials have described the propaganda efforts of the Taliban insurgency as increasingly sophisticated and effective. These statements fail to distinguish between insurgent propaganda efforts at the local leve…
This study investigates the targeted audience for the Taliban‘s monthly Arabic language magazine, al-Sumud. The research examines four different audience groups by applying a content analysis method on the first 48 magazine issues, from May 2006 to May 2010. The four segments ar…
On 11 September 2001, in a period of less than three hours, almost 3000 Americans had been killed in a sophisticated series of coordinated terrorist attacks. The United States found itself thrust into war. This new war was, and remains, very different from the wars the United St…
This dissertation explores the ways in which Americans constructed a public discourse about gender relations in Muslim countries from the Iranian Revolution through the post-9/11 period. It argues that discourse significantly influenced U.S. foreign policy in recent decades. In …
Policy analysts frequently portray the Taliban resistance as an exclusively Islamic movement. Culturally deterministic notions regarding Islamic societies have negatively influenced western governments' policies towards Muslim states. The research here advances the hypothesis th…