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Alumni Publication: "India’s Leap of Faith in Afghanistan: Tango With the Taliban" by Shanthie Mariet D'Souza

On 13 November 2024, The Diplomat published NESA Center alumna Shanthie Mariet D'Souza's latest article, "India’s Leap of Faith in Afghanistan: Tango with the Taliban."
"The evolving Indian policy toward Afghanistan is either a drastic climb down from a moral high ground or grimly pragmatic, depending on how one looks at things," writes D'Souza.
About the Author
Dr. Shanthie Mariet D'Souza is a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair at the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; Founder of Mantraya, Visiting faculty at the Naval War College, Goa, India, and a Non-Resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, Washington DC. She has worked in governmental and non-governmental sectors and conducted field research in various provinces of Afghanistan for more than a decade. Email: smdsouza@umass.edu. Tweets: @shanmariet.
About the Publisher
The Diplomat is the premier international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region. Since its launch in 2002, The Diplomat has been dedicated to quality analysis and commentary on events occurring in Asia and around the world.
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