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Afghanistan: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, United States, Law Library of Congress

The Law Library of US Congress provides access to information on the Afghanistan Constitution, the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary, and its legal system.

Afghanistan – Politics, GlobalSecurity.org

Politics and Government, MiPAL: Afghanistan, Military Policy Awareness Links, National Defense University.

Detailed set of links.

Special Reports: Afghanistan, The Guardian Unlimited

Regularly updated website from the UK-based Guardian newspaper.

Politics of Afghanistan, Wikipedia [regularly updated]

Political parties in Afghanistan, Wikipedia

As of March 2007, well-resourced and regularly updated Wikipedia sites.

Political parties and leaders, Afghanistan, CIA World Fact Book

Accessible compendium of mainly statistical and basic factual data.

Afghanistan Reconstruction Project (ARP)

A project of the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, led by Barnett Rubin.

Who’s who, Australia in Afghanistan

Afghan politicians, Wikipedia

Key Afghan players: Who's who, BBC News, 4 July 2006

Afghanistan Report, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Weekly report.

Analysis

The Pessoptimist, Barnett Rubin, Informed Comment Global Affairs, 9 July 2007

On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World, Jason Burke, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007

A Long Hot Summer: Crisis and Opportunity in Afghanistan, William Maley and Daoud Yaqub, Lowy Institute, March 2007

Afghanistan 2007: Problems, Opportunities and Possible Solutions, Peter Bergen, testimony to House Committee on Foreign Affairs, United States Congress, 15 February 2007.

Countering the Insurgency in Afghanistan: Losing Friends and Making Enemies, Senlis Council, February 2007

A Surge in Two Wars, Paul Rogers, International Security Monthly Briefings, Oxford Research Group, January 2007

Saving Afghanistan, Barnett R. Rubin, Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007

Afghanistan’s Endangered Compact, Asia Briefing N°59, International Crisis Group, 29 January 2007

Assessing ISAF: A Baseline Study of NATO’s Role in Afghanistan, Cameron Scott, British American Security Information Council, March 2007

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, Sarah Chayes, Penguin Press, 2006

Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, Seven Stories Press, 2006

Still Ours to Lose: Afghanistan on the Brink, Barnett R. Rubin, Prepared Testimony for the House Committee on International Relations (September 20, 2006) and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (September 21, 2006)

Rescuing Afghanistan: A Balance Sheet, William Maley, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, July 19, 2006

Afghanistan: On the Brink, Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 11, June 22, 2006

Security, Nation Building and Democracy: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Talk given by Ahmed Rashid, Center for Peace and Human Security April 27, 2006

Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition From Turmoil to Normalcy, Barnett R. Rubin, Center for Preventive Action, Council On Foreign Relations, Council Special Report, No. 12, March 2006

The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country’s Troubled Past, Thomas H. Johnson, Strategic Insights, Volume V, Issue 2, (February 2006)

Afghanistan as an empty space, Part 1 - 4, Marc W. Herold, 26 February 2006

Karzai’s Afghanistan: Audio Slide Show, Jon Lee Anderson (text) and Samantha Appleton (photographs), The New Yorker (online only), 6 June 2005

Political Parties in Afghanistan, International Crisis Group, Asia Briefing No. 39, 2 June 2005

The Other War: Why Bush’s Afghanistan problem won’t go away, Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, 12 April 2004

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