Table of Contents

Prelude: The Scene 1. Four Presidents, One Discourse 2. Post-2001 Afghanistan: from the Politics of Confinement to Necropolitics 3. The Taliban of the past and the present: Afghanistan under a new round of necroplitics 4. Epilogue

About the Author

Pamir Halimzai Sahill is a researcher at the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies in Prague. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations from the Prague University of Economics and Business (Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze). He specialises in International Security, Terrorism Studies, Theories of Globalization, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, State-building Theory and Practice, (Foucauldian) Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism and Developmentalism, the politics and security of Afghanistan, South Asia, and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His articles have been published in journals such as Women’s Studies International Forum, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Insight Turkey, and Jan Masaryk Review of International Studies. He speaks English, Pashto, (Persian) Farsi, Urdu/Hindi, Punjabi, and Hindko.