Context Despite a haphazard military pullout and the subsequent despondency evoked by the rapid collapse of the Afghan government, the United States has been compelled to resume talks with the Taliban. The US decision to begin talking to the Taliban again in Qatar starting this week may seem like an undue concession to a group…
CONTEXT Like most other countries around the world Pakistan was in a wait and see mode on how its relationship with the United States would be impacted with the arrival of the Biden administration. Pakistan’s omission from the initial list of invitees for the first international summit on climate change, being hosted by President Biden…
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.” John.F. Kennedy, 35th US President (1917-63) Conceptual FrameworkFor good or for worse, human society changes constantly; sometimes it evolves through processes such as globalization but sometimes it decays through civil wars, insurgencies or even breaks down leading to creation of new states and societies. Therefore,…
