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August 9, 2022EP 31 The Afghan Question: Examining Great Power Fatigue and the New Asian Geopolitics
In this episode of Policy Beyond Politics Sharon Susan Koshy, Associate, Research, CPPR interacts with Dr Stanly Johny, Editor, International Affairs, The Hindu, to discuss Afghanistan and an emergent state of geopolitics in Asia following the Taliban takeover and related events.
The conversation draws from Dr Johny’s second book “Comrades and Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics” and focuses on the plausible directions of international relations in this part of the world. Comrades and Mullahs delves into the historical trajectory of the Taliban’s rise against the context of the Soviet intervention during the late 20th century, the war on terror in the early 21st century, and the geopolitical implications of it all. Much has changed since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, and India’s engagement with Kabul has been nothing short of complicated given rising geopolitical challenges. Therefore, the discussion is steered to examine the nature of relations India engenders with Kabul, its perceived strategic implication, implications of the US withdrawal on global and Asian geopolitics, and the China question.
Sharon Susan Koshy is a Research Associate at Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR). She completed her Masters in IR and Political Science from Central University of Kerala, and MPhil in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad. For her MPhil thesis, she explored the themes of state and feminist negotiations in post-Arab Spring Egypt. Sharon had also secured the UGC-Junior Research Fellowship during her research period in Hyderabad and Chennai. Her academic interests pertain to IR theory, gender politics, refugee studies, intersectionality, and area studies of South Asia, West Asia and North Africa, and Indo Pacific.
