Departure from Afghanistan: Envisioning a Responsible Withdrawal

A Discussion

with

Colin Clarke

Director of Policy and Research, the Soufan Group
Senior Research Fellow, the Soufan Center

Candace Rondeaux

Director, Future Frontlines, New America

Muska Dastageer

Lecturer, American University, Afghanistan

and

Asfandyar Mir

Fellow, Center for International Security & Cooperation, Stanford University

Moderated by

Karen J. Greenberg

Director, Center on National Security

Tuesday, May 25th 2021
11:00AM ET

Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., is the Director of Policy and Research at The Soufan Group and a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center. Prior to joining The Soufan Group, Clarke was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Clarke is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) – The Hague, a non-resident Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET), and a member of the “Network of Experts” at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Candace Rondeaux directs New America's Future Frontlines, a public intelligence service for next generation security and democratic resilience. A journalist and public policy analyst, she is a professor of practice and fellow at the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies and the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She is a columnist for the World Politics Review and a contributing writer for the Daily Beast.

Asfandyar Mir is a Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His research interests are in International Relations of South Asia, political violence, US counterterrorism policy, al-Qaida, and social media and politics. His work has appeared in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere.

Karen J. Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her latest book, Subtle Tools: the Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Princeton), is forthcoming August 2021. Greenberg is the host of "Vital Interests Podcast," and the editor-in-chief of the CNS/Soufan Group Morning Brief and the CNS/Aon Cyber Brief.