CENTRAL ASIA AND AFGHANISTAN: HE SECURITY COMPLEX DILEMMA
Keywords:
Afghanistan, traditional and non-traditional threats, terrorism, the Taliban, friction, NATO, ISAF, the regional security complex.Abstract
The author uses the latest theoretical and conceptual approaches to world politics and international security to analyze the Afghan problem.
He suggests that certain commonly accepted ideas about the strategic situation in Afghanistan should be reviewed to arrive at more exact interpretations of the “traditional” and “non-traditional” threats and other concepts. He also formulates a concept of systemic securitization for Afghanistan’s future.
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