Afghanistan Under the Taliban 2.0: What Does the Future Hold?
After 20 years of war, the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has ended, The U.S., having fought for two decades, spent trillions of dollars and sacrificed thousands of American lives and thousands more injured before leaving Afghanistan to an uncertain future. The Taliban took over the government and country much faster than our military and regional experts expected. How will Afghanistan fare under the "new" Taliban rule? Will the gains achieved in education, health care, women's rights, and democratization be preserved or are they vanishing with the departing foreign troops? Will the Taliban allow Al Qaeda, and ISIS to use the country as a base of operations again?
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Dr. Baher Ghosheh, Ph.D., is a scholar-in-residence at the Jefferson Educational Society in Erie, Pennsylvania. An expert in Middle Eastern Studies, he holds a Ph.D. in Economic Development from SUNY-Buffalo and was a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, cultural and economic Geography at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania until retiring in 2022. He has graduate degrees in International Relations/Middle Eastern Studies, International Trade, and Comparative Economic Development. A native of Jerusalem, Dr. Ghosheh has lived in eight countries, traveled to 59 countries, and has taught in Japan, China, Russia, Italy, and Morocco. He was awarded a Fulbright to conduct research in Malaysia and Singapore and was selected as the Pennsylvania Geographer of the Year and Edinboro University’s Educator of the Year.
