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Shihoko Goto
Director, Indo-Pacific Program
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Michael Kugelman
Director, South Asia Institute
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Read more from MichaelAfghanistan today is a messy, mixed picture. After almost four decades of war, there is no more active conflict. But the country is fully controlled by a Taliban regime just as brutal as it was in the 1990s, and it is suffering through searing levels of humanitarian and economic stress. Relative peace may have arrived, but at great cost.
Lucas Myers
Senior Associate for Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific Program
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Kayla Orta
Senior Associate, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy
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