On Monday 23 November Dr Antonio Giustozzi, Research Fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics, spoke on his edited book “Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field” (C Hurst & Co, 2009).
Watch the Speech and the Q&A Session
Dr Antonio Giustozzi is a research fellow at the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics and has already authored “Empires of Mud” (C. Hurst. & Co, 2009), “Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007” (C Hurst & Co, 2008), and “War, politics and society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992” (Georgetown University Press, 2000). He is currently researching various aspects of governance and politics in Afghanistan and has written several articles and papers on this subject, covering 'warlordism', the formation of the new Afghan National Army, the Afghan insurgency in the 1980s and state building. He previously served in the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (2003-4).
Some of his recent articles include: [with D. Orsini] Centre-periphery relations in Afghanistan: Badakhshan between patrimonialism and institution-building, Central Asian Survey, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 1-16(16); “Afghanistan’s National Army: the ambiguous prospects of Afghanization” Terrorism monitor 6(9) 2008; "Afghanistan: Political Parties or Militia Fronts?" in Transforming rebel movements after civil wars, ed. by J. de Zeeuw, (Lynne Reinner Publishers, forthcoming 2007); "Auxiliary force or national army? Afghanistan's 'ANA' and the counter-insurgency effort, 2002-2006", Small Wars and Insurgencies 18(1) March 2007; 'The inverted cycle: Kabul and the strongmen's competition for control over Kandahar, 2001-2006', Central Asian Survey Volume 26(2) June 2007.
This meeting was chaired by Colonel Christopher Langton, Senior Fellow for Conflict & Defence Diplomacy at the IISS and took place in The Lee Kuan Yew Conference Room at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3D.
