The Future Emirates of Afghanistan September 9, 2021Geoffrey Clarfield
The West has spent more than twenty years and billions of dollars trying to weld these tribes into a modern nation-state. It cannot be done and the majority of Afghans do not want it.
Tribalism and the War in Syria July 6, 2013Michael Curtis
The ancient tribes of Syria have largely washed their hands of Assad -- but have not yet allied themselves with the Jihadis either.
