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China Enters the ‘Great Game’
After taking a backseat to the United States and Russia in Central Asia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, China is finally making its mark in the region, says Joshua Kucera. But while the three powers vie for influence, it could be the 'stans' that are playing the wiliest game of all.
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The ‘Good’ Taliban Myth
If the London Conference on Afghanistan held last week demonstrated anything, it is that it's only a matter of time until India loses whatever strategic leverage it previously enjoyed compared with Pakistan in the country.
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An Interview with Juan Cole
The Diplomat speaks with leading Afghanistan commentator Juan Cole, author of the Informed Comment blog, about the recent election, the abandoned run-off and the future of US forces in the country.
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Fifteen Years on the Frontline
Award-winning photojournalist Stephen Dupont reminisces about his life on the frontline in Afghanistan.
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Russian Revolutionary
Harriet Riley reports from St Petersburg on the link between badly dubbed Western movies and an award-winning human rights activist
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Tehran Ignites
In June, Austin Mackell was in Iran for The Diplomat to get a sense of modern life inside the Islamic Republic; to talk politics, religion, love, sex, drugs and rock'n'roll with the social networking-savvy, Western-influenced members of generation next who hadn't even been born when the 1979 revolution took place, yet whose lives remain indelibly shaped by it. On the night of June 12, that story changed into something far darker. This is it.
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Iran, Michael Jackson, and Generation X
Our writer argues that his young tech-savvy peers, celebrity fixations aside, are increasingly engaged in global issues like this summer's riots in Tehran.
