Introduction: NATO, Afghanistan and the Central Asian Security in the Aftermath of 9/11

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2011-04-11

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Tanrısever, Oktay Fırat

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Since the tragic events of 9/11, more than a decade of engagement by the International Community - and NATO/ISAF with it - in Afghanistan has been instrumental in creating the conditions that have enabled Afghanistan to embark upon a new path towards enduring stability. To date, progress has been made in the domains of security, governance, human rights, and social and economic development. This is the result of several factors. Amongst these is the decision, undertaken in the second part of 2009, to reboot the Afghan campaign by bridging a gap that for some years had existed between an ambitious end-state (a self-sustainable Afghanistan) and the resources put on the ground to achieve it. Rebooting the campaign has not meant just executing a surge of civilian and military resources. It has also meant embarking on a fully-fledged counter-insurgency model of international assistance. The counter-insurgency approach has started to bear fruit. The insurgents are on the back-foot, the Afghan National Security Forces continue to grow, the process of transition to full Afghan security responsibility is on track to be completed by the agreed deadline of end-2014, and the International Community as a whole has recently confirmed, through the Tokyo Conference, its long-term commitment towards Afghanistan, up to the end of 2014 and beyond that. However, we cannot and we must not be complacent. A stable Afghanistan requires a continued effort to strengthen Afghan ownership, through a comprehensive approach. NATO is determined to play its part within this framework. At the 2010 Summit in Lisbon, the Atlantic Alliance vowed to remain committed through the completion of the transition process and beyond that. The recently held Summit in Chicago, in May 2012, has just reinforced this message.

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Area Studies, Interdisciplinary, Social sciences

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41478

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https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-179-3-1

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O. F. Tanrısever, “Introduction: NATO, Afghanistan and the Central Asian Security in the Aftermath of 9/11,” 2011, vol. 106, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41478.