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Addressing recent developments in Afghanistan as well as providing expert analysis into the country's future, this compendium offers multiple perspectives on issues such as counterinsurgency, stabilization, and nation-building in Afghanistan. The essays focus on one key question--What can be done to stabilize Afghanistan?--and attempt to address it through redefining the character of the conflict there as well as the role of regional actors, the U.S. and its allies, international nongovernmental organizations, and the international community at large. Essays include "Reconstructing Afghanistan," "Pakistani Attitudes Toward Militancy in and Beyond Pakistan," and "Post-Taliban Afghanistan: Conflict, Violence, and Regional Stability."