Barnett R. Rubin is senior fellow and associate director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Center for International Cooperation, New York University. Rubin is the author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan and Afghanistan from the Cold War through the War on Terror.
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Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points mos... SEE MORE