The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) hosted the Herat Security Dialogue III (HSD) 27-28 September 2014 in Herat, Afghanistan. This was the third annual international conference AISS hosted.It was attended by government officials, international organization delegates, legislators, academic experts, distinguished journalists,...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) participated at the first meeting of Afghanistan-Tajikistan-India Trilateral process, in Tajik capital, Dushanbe on 17-19 August 2014. The process is co-partnered with Delhi Policy Group (DPG) and Tajikistan’s Center for Strategic Researches under the President of the Republic of T...

Bayram Balci, Didier Chaudet

The states of Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—are closely watching the political situation in Afghanistan, a neighbor with whom three of them share a border. This situation concerns them very deeply.

Central Asian govern...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Didier Chaudet and Ms. Farzana Marie as visiting fellows.

Mr. Didier Chaudet is the Head of the Programme on Iranian and South Asian Studies at European Institute for Prospective and Security (IPSE), a French think...

On Thursday August, 7, 2014, Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) with cooperation of Counterpart International held a round-table discussion on “ Future Afghan Government and Role of Civil Society”. The discussion was attended by Afghan government officials, civil society activists, political experts, academi...