Afghanistan

Magazine articles on politics and society in Afghanistan.

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Chemistry World February 8, 2008 Victoria Gill	Could Afghanistan's Opium Crop be Legalised? This year's opium harvest in Afghanistan will be 'shockingly high', according to figures released this week by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Reason November 2007 Kerry Howley	Reconstruction Mess Could anyone have predicted the failures of reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to a new working paper, the public choice theorist Gordon Tullock did just that -- in 1965.
Smithsonian September 2007 Joshua Hammer	Undaunted First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul. When Stewart is not overseeing his foundation, he is on the road wooing skeptics.
Smithsonian September 2007	The New Civil Service An excerpt from Rory Stewart's "The Places in Between," a best-selling work of travel literature based on the author's 600-mile walk across rural Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's fall.
Chemistry World May 24, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Between a Rock and a Hard Place An important part of Afghanistan's reconstruction is to enable the Afghan population to make the most of the country's mineral wealth. Geological surveys from the UK, US, Japan and the Czech Republic are helping to rebuild the Afghanistan Geological Survey.
Parameters Spring 2006 Ali A. Jalali	The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past.
Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez	Blowing Off Steam The American Civil Liberties Union released its analysis of 44 autopsies and death reports on detainees who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan -- almost half were classed as homicides.
Reason December 2005 Jacob Sullum	Poppy Flop According to the U.N., efforts to halt opium production in Afghanistan resulted in cutting the acreage devoted to poppies by one-fifth. Yet opium production is virtually unchanged, and the country still accounts for an estimated 87% of the world's heroin
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Michael J. Mcnerney	Stabilization and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Are PRTs a Model or a Muddle? Developed during the summer of 2002, the concept of Provincial Reconstruction Teams have the potential to become a model for future stabilization and reconstruction operations.
Parameters Autumn 2005 Sean M. Maloney	Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics.
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