Special Issue on Contemporary Wars and Politics of Dispossession: Afghanistan and Ukraine
As a post-colonial society emerging from decades-long protracted conflicts, Afghanistan confronts a complex legacy of past crimes and structural violence in addition to a complex web of mobilities. Communist rulers, Soviet occupiers, rural resistance fighters, Islamist parties, the Taleban movement, Pakistani volunteers, al-Qaeda members, power-seeking warlords, and the anti-Taliban coalition all contributed to the litany of abuse and turmoil since 1978. In the larger context of the continued subjection of the Middle East and North Africa to an extraordinary condensation of the old and new aspects of imperialism and neocolonialism, the pertinent effects of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq endure in tandem with novel forms of international, external and regional interventions.