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Recently the international politics is marked by major developments as military
intervention, oil politics, strategic power calculations and pre-emptive wars.
The American policy contours in Afghanistan consequent to 9/11 were to
defeat, dismantle and disrupt Al-Qaeda and Taliban through military
engagement in order to have a less violent world. The US military engagement
under Operation Enduring Freedom remained of Combating Terrorism till the
end of 2014 while in the first half of 2015 it transformed into Operation
Freedom Sentinel under Resolute Support Mission in order to restrict the very
role of NATO to Assist, Advice and Train the military personnel only. The
grounds for investigation are that what are the US policy contours in
Afghanistan and how much the US military engagement has worked? What are
main problems in the region and reasons for problems also need to be checked.
For this research mixed method design is used with descriptive statistics. The
hypothesis of study is that Afghanistan is significant for the United States for
not only curbing terrorism but also for relative power maximization as
expounded by realist paradigm. Despite US military engagement for one and
half decade, the momentum of militancy and insurgency inside Afghanistan is
mounting whereby IS has also been an addition to the scene and there are
various obstacles in peace talks. The viable solution for Afghanistan problem is
not military but negotiation based on pluralism, constitutionalism and
recognition of minorities’ rights.
Saima Parveen, Syed Akhtar Ali Shah, Jehanzeb Khalil. (2020) Afghanistan’s Significance for the United States (2001-16), , Volume-14, Issue-1.
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