https://www.iess.ir/en/publications/special_issue Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:18:03 GMT /skins/default/en/normal/ch01_newsfeed_logo.gif https://www.iess.ir/ 100 70 en Copyright (c) Institute for East Strategic Studies, all rights reserved. Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:18:03 GMT Special reports 60 https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2610/ The South Asia region has witnessed many changes in the recent years that have affected the countries of the region and beyond. Pakistan’s location in a multifaceted region, as well as its proximity to South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East and China, as an emerging power, has brought a special geopolitical position for the country with numerous opportunities and challenges. This study will analyze Pakistan's position in the region and investigates the county's relations with other important regional countries as well as world powers. It will also analyze Pakistan’s geostrategic role in the new regional order. ]]> Special reports Wed, 14 Apr 2021 06:16:32 GMT https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2610/ https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2441/ After the fall of the Taliban, everyone believed that the Taliban had ceased to exist and nobody could imagine that the group can be revived in a few years and play an important role in Afghanistan's politics. For more than a decade, the group besides maintaining its influence over the Pashtun regions of Afghanistan and even spreading it to other parts of the country, has managed to carry out Irregular and guerrilla warfare as well as short and periodic attacks against the foreign forces and Afghan troops. It is still no clear that how the Taliban, over these years, have been able to regain and preserve their existence and identity in the face of the consistent attacks by the NATO and Afghan forces. The analysts have done many researches during these years to answer this question, most of which were based on a second hand narrative of the identity and nature of the Taliban. In this study, however, the question will be addressed from a different point of view and by using the “internal developments of the Taliban.” ]]> Special reports Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:48:28 GMT https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2441/ https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2440/ Turkmenistan’s society is based on tribal structures. The Teke, Yamut, Ersari, Ali-Eli, and Saryk are among the tribes that, regarding their population, historical settlement, and political power, play a certain role in Turkmenistan’s society and politics. The status of each tribe and its elites within the political structure of the country would also be determined by principals of the same tribalism. ]]> Special reports Tue, 10 Nov 2020 08:45:12 GMT https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2440/ https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2439/ The U.S. policy toward Pakistan during the Cold War, after the Cold War, and especially during the post-9/11 years, has experienced many ups and downs, which have affected the Islamabad-Washington relations. Following the declaration of the US’s new strategy in South Asia and Afghanistan by Donald Trump, his explicit verbal attacks against Pakistan over its role in supporting the terrorist groups and also his invitation to the Indian officials to play a more significant role in Afghanistan, pushed the US-Pakistan relations into a new phase. Now, the question is, given the many challenges in relations between the two countries and also Pakistan's geopolitical position in the region, will Washington's policy towards Islamabad see a fundamental change? ]]> Special reports Tue, 10 Nov 2020 07:44:44 GMT https://www.iess.ir/en/report/2439/