Transnational Institute | Central and West Asia

Nato's lost cause

The west's 'good war' in Afghanistan has turned bad. A local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is what's needed

In the latest clashes on the Pakistan-Afghan border, Nato troops have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and injured many more, creating a serious crisis in the country and angering the Pakistan military high command, already split on the question.

US failure in Afghanistan is now evident and Nato desperation only too visible. Spreading the war to Pakistan would be a disaster for all sides.

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Turkey's government plans sweeping water privatisation in run-up to World Water Forum in Istanbul

In March 2009 the Turkish government will host the fifth World Water Forum against a backdrop of what is probably the most sweeping water privatisation programme in the world. As well as privatizing water services, the government plans to sell of rivers and lakes.

Afghanistan: mirage of the good war

The reasons for the West's stalemate in Afghanistan can be found in the very nature of the occupation regime as a broken country subjected to the combined predations of NGOs and NATO.

Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Support for the war was universal in the chanceries of the West, even before its aims and parameters had been declared. NATO governments rushed to assert themselves ‘all for one’.

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Afghanistan and the Pakistan crisis

Scarce attention to poverty alleviation and blind reliance on military might has brought the western forces in Afghanistan to a standstill. Putting Pakistan into the equation is a key to any solution in Afghanistan.

Susan George: ABD için Avrupa’nın önemi kalmadı

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Murat Aktaş

PARİS (30.01.2008)- Avrupa’daki en önemli muhalif hareketlerden ATTAC’ın da kurucularından olan Amerikalı politolog Susan George, yaklaşmakta olan Amerika’daki seçimleri ve ABD dışpolitikasını ANF’ye değerlendirdi.

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Afghanistan -- the next disaster

The overwhelming public sentiment against Iraq will turn to Afghanistan as casualty rates continue or accelerate.

After six plus years, the war in Afghanistan drags on. The media occasionally cites casualties, but if it doesn’t involve National Football League veteran Pat Tillman’s execution by his own comrades, Afghanistan gets sparse attention. A few stories feature the growing number of Afghan and Iraq War vets on American streets. But the aspiring candidates ignore such “blowback.” Instead, they demonstrate verbal aggression, a characteristic thought necessary for victory.