Analysis: Why the Taliban Won’t Quit al Qaeda
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Barbara Elias is an associate professor of government and legal studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars and a former director of the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Taliban project at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C.
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