This report offers a critical examination of Iran's influence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Two points are made: that …. Secondly, that Iran's engagements in Afghanistan are clearly guided by the presence of the US. Iran's predominant interest is … in stabilizing Afghanistan, but as long as Afghanistan is neither safe nor stable, Iran will play a double game and …

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

-in-difference-in-differences approach, we analyze empirically whether the presence of US-based NGOs in Afghanistan and Iraq improved their chances of … external funding. We find that NGOs being active in Afghanistan tended to benefit from easier access to official sources of …