What is the current state of the Taliban?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2012 · Education
Alex Strick van Linschoten, co-author of An Enemy We Created, on the the Taliban in Afghanistan today and how they've changed since their rise in the 1990s. Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn are researchers and writers. They have worked in Afghanistan since 2006, focusing on the Taliban insurgency and the history of southern Afghanistan over the past four decades. They are the co-authors of An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan and co-editors of a Taliban memoir entitled My Life with the Taliban. For more information: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/ComparativePolitics/MiddleEast/?view=usa&ci=9780199927319 (c) Oxford University Press USA 2012
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