Shanthie Mariet D’Souza

Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza is Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS). Email: isassmd@nus.edu.sg Twitter: @shanmariet.

Is Afghanistan, ‘Iraq, the sequel’?

The artificial bifurcation between peace and reintegration in Afghanistan serves Washington DC's political interests, but is very confusing to the Afghans and is not a coherent, actionable policy. And what happened to reconciliation?

By Shanthie Mariet D’Souza and Aaron C Taliaferro

/ 3 Nov 2011