https://www.scmp.com/rss/510683/feed Maryam Baryalay heads the Afghan data-driven research NGO, Organisation for Social Research Analysis in Kabul. Her focus has been socio-political dynamics and security in Central and South Asia. She has over 10 years work and research experience in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia, in particular in Afghanistan. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The invasion of Ukraine has essentially consolidated US-Russia antagonism on the global stage while upending the post-Cold-War security order in Europe. It has also initiated the militaristic rationale of the Cold War without providing the two ideological alternatives of organising politics, economies and societies that characterised that period. In the face of this, it is critical to recognise that the Cold War’s proxy wars, or hot wars, will play out mercilessly and more viciously in... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170832/ukraine-crisis-heats-cold-war-rivalries-expect-afghanistan-be-heart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3170832/ukraine-crisis-heats-cold-war-rivalries-expect-afghanistan-be-heart?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:30:13 +0000 Along with millions of others, I am trying to wrap my head around what happened, what is happening and what will happen in Afghanistan. The grief is overwhelming. People are frightened. While the people of Afghanistan have internalised adaptation as a survival strategy – perhaps like no other nation in the world – most of those who are under 25 years of age know the past only through the stories of their parents, which were usually horror stories. These young people, with whom I have lived and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3146987/women-and-girls-afghanistan-need-hope-future-after-taliban-takeover?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3146987/women-and-girls-afghanistan-need-hope-future-after-taliban-takeover?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:30:13 +0000