
ALPA in Exile

Policy Paper - November 2025
A Holistic Framework for Educating Girls in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan
Dr. Mirwais Balkhi

Short Essay - November 2025
The Taliban’s Gender Politics: Repression at Home, Performance on the World Stage
Hasina Jalal and Paulo Casaca

Short Essay - November 2025
The Fine Line of Intervention and Invasion
Tabasom Mahjub

Policy Paper - November 2025
The Need for a New Lexicon to Describe the Oppression of the Taliban System
Dr. Omar Sadr

Policy Paper - November 2025
How to Design A Governance System for All in Afghanistan
Dr. Bashir Mobasher

Short Essay - October 2025
A 47-Year Arc of Conflict and Abuse: Afghanistan's Unfinished Reckoning
Hasina Jalal, Zareen Samad, and Omar Samad

Short Essay - October 2025
Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban avoid a deeper war for now, but how long can the peace hold?
Dr. Amin Saikal

Short Essay - October 2025
How Security Council Politics Trample Women’s Rights
Hasina Jalal

Short Essay - August 2025
The First Freedom: How We Lost Sight of Our Oldest Right—The Freedom of Movement
Dr. Bashir Mobasher

Book Chapter - July 2025
Taliban's Return, Terrorism, and Regional Security Policy Convergence on Afghanistan
Dr. Haqmal Daudzai

Article - July 2025
Prosecuting Transnational Disinformation
Dr. Mahir Hazim

Article - July 2025
The Absent Voters of Afghanistan: Challenges and Prospects for the Enfranchisements of Migrants
Dr. Bashir Mobasher

Article - May 2025 (Award Winner)*
Gender discourse and representation in educational curricula in Afghanistan (2001–2021): promises in policy, pitfalls in practice
Rajab Taieb

Article - May 2025 (Award Winner)*
The Evolution of the Office of Muhtasib in Afghanistan: A Historical Legal Analysis (1747-2023)
Zabi Obaidy

Short Essay - April 2025
Reflecting on Predictions: Why Do We Often Get Elections Wrong?
Dr. Bashir Mobasher

Article - March 2025 (Award Winner)*
Executive Authoritarianism in Lawmaking in the Afghan Republic
Dr. Mahir Hazim

Book Review - March 2025
Review of Bashir Mobasher, Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation: Institutional Design in Afghanistan
Dr. Shamshad Pasarlay

Book - February 2025
Power & Authority in Afghanistan: Rethinking Politics, Intervention and Rule
Dr. Anna Larson, Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay, and Dr. Omar Sharifi (editors)

Book Chapter - February 2025
Stability as Strength in the Musahiban Era
Dr. Thomas Barfield

Book Chapter - February 2025
Failed Democracy in Afghanistan: Rethinking Deliberation and Pluralism
Dr. Omar Sadr

Article - December 2024
How Peace Negotiations Fail: The Case of Afghanistan and the Taliban (2020–2021)
Dr. Omar Sadr

Book - June 2024
How to Lose A War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan
Dr. Amin Saikal

Book - January 2024
Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation: Institutional Design in Afghanistan
Dr. Bashir Mobasher







