Dr Amin Tarzi is the Director of Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California’s Washington DC Program, and a Senior Fellow, Program on the Middle East, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is currently working on a book on Afghanistan’s state formation and borderisation.

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Accord Issue 27: Afghanistan

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