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Shall the Court Subject CounterTerrorism Law to Judicial Review?National Security vs Human Rights
Author: *Dr Sharifullah Dorani Original Publication: Political Reflection Publication Date: 5 November 2019 Photo Credit: Christian Wasserfallen/Pexels Key Comment This article examines how UK and European courts have navigated the tension between human rights and national security in terrorism emergencies, analysing pre‑ and post‑Human Rights Act 1998 jurisprudence and assessing whether constitutional legitimacy justifies…
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Article Summary: America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump
Author: *Sharifullah Dorani Original Publication: Political Reflections Date of Publication: January/February 2019 Photo credit: Original book cover Overview In this article, Sharifullah Dorani offers a concise and authoritative summary of his book America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy and Decision Making from Bush to Obama to Trump, originally published by I.B. Tauris (and later by…
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After Evaluations, Bush Shifts Afghanistan ‘CT’ Strategy to COIN
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘Afghanistan ‘is slipping toward failure. The Taliban is back, violence is up, drug production is booming and the Afghans are losing faith in their government. All the legs of strategy ─ security, counternarcotics efforts, reconstruction and governance ─ have gone wobbly. If we should have had a surge anywhere, it…
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Why President Bush’s Light Footprint Strategy Failed in Afghanistan
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘If some later contended that we never had a plan for full-fledged nation building or that we under-resource such a plan, they were certainly correct. We didn’t go there to try to bring prosperity to every corner of Afghanistan. I believe…that such a goal would have amounted to a fool’s…
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The Role of NATO in America’s Afghanistan War
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction After ‘liberating Afghanistan’, the George W Bush Administration assumed that ‘the coalition of the willing’, and later North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), would shoulder responsibility[1] for the post-Taliban Afghanistan, as the US military role was assumed to win wars, not engage in peacekeeping, policing or building nations. This article…