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J. Alexander Thier

J. Alexander Thier Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. Institue of Peace, is coauthor and editor of The Future of Afghanistan. He frequently travels to Afghanistan, where he has lived for seven of the last sixteen years.

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The stabilization of Afghanistan depends primarily on Afghans, and any strategy that ignores this is doomed to failure. The question, then, is whether the Afghans—national leaders, local leaders, and ordinary folk—have something...
J. Alexander Thier

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