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Afghanistan National Development Strategy
The Afghan Compact
Strengthening Regional Cooperation
Security, Justice and Law and Order
BBC
Chronology of Key Events in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Turbulent History
Losing the War on Afghan Drugs
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations in the Post-9/11 Era
Centre for Contemporary Conflict
Rough Neighbors: Afghanistan and Pakistan
Global Security
International Monetary Fund
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Progress Report
Journal of International Peace Operations
Sharing the Humanitarian Space: Finding Balance between the Military, NGOs and the Private Sector
Library of Congress
Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
MRRD Strategy and Programme Summary: Poverty Reduction through Pro-Poor Growth
Building Community Institutions in Rural Afghanistan
NATO
Naval Postgraduate School
Provincial Reconstruction Teams and Humanitarian-Military Relations in Afghanistan
Office of the President of the Government of Afghanistan
Overseas Development Institute
The Changing Role of the Military in Assistance Strategies
Pearson Peacekeeping Centre
Backgrounder: Country Profile Afghanistan
Relief Web
Integrated Political-Military Strategy Needed to Overcome Violence
Social Science Research Council
Afghanistan and Threats to Human Security
The Washington Quarterly
Afghanistan: When Counternarcotics Undermines Counterterrorism
United Nations
UNDP and Ministry of Finance Partner to Fight Corruption in Afghanistan
Fighting Corruption in Afghanistan: A Roadmap for Strategy and Action
USAID
Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: An Interagency Assessment
USIP
Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: An Ever Dangerous Neighborhood
Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate
On the Issues: Afghanistan/Pakistan
Public Health and Conflict Series: Rebuilding a Nation’s Health in Afghanistan
PRTs and Military Relations with International and NGOs in Afghanistan
The U.S Experience with PRTs in Iraq and Afghanistan
Washington Monthly
The Schools the Taliban Won’t Torch
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: Lessons and Recommendations
World Bank
Afghanistan: Drug Industry and Counter-Narcotics Policy
Afghanistan Drug Industry: Focus on Drug Trading and Processing
Drugs and Development in Afghanistan
Drug Industry Threatens to Derail Afghanistan’s State Building
Afghanistan: A Fragile State? Tackling Economic and Social Vulnerability
World Policy Journal
Regional Issues in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal
Selected Books
Anderson, Jon W. (Spring 1978). There are no Khans Anymore: economic development and social change in tribal Afghanistan. Washington D.C. Middle East Journal, Vol. 32, No. 2.
Banuazizi, Ali and Weiner, Myron. (1986). The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics: Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press.
Dorronsoro, Gilles (2005). Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present. New York. Columbia University Press.
Tapper, Richard (1984). The Conflict of Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan. London. Croom Helm.