Publications / Other publications
Thomas Ruttig: Organisationsstrukturen der Taliban (Organisational Structures of the [Afghan] Taleban)
in: Wer sind die Taliban? Afghanistan und Pakistan im Regionalkonflikt, epd-Dokumentation Nr. 27-28, Frankfurt am Main
Summary of a presentation given at a symposium in Bonn on 26 March 2010. Documentation not available online but can be ordered (€ 7.90)
Militanter Islamismus - Strukturen und Ziele der Taliban (Militant Islamism - Structures and Aims of the [Pakistani] Taleban)
In: Bernhard Chiari, Conrad Schetter (Hrsg.): Wegweiser zur Geschichte Pakistan, Paderborn u.a. 2010 (in German).
Thomas Ruttig: An overview over the Pakistani Taleban movement - origins, structures, aims. Available as PDF download, free-of-charge.
Thomas Ruttig: Aus Bündnistreue zur Sowjetunion: Eine kurze Suche nach der DDR-Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Afghanistan und den Spuren, die sie hinterlassen hat
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), book chapter, forthcoming (Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin)
In Loyalty to the USSR: A short quest for GDR development cooperation with Afghanistan and the traces it left: In this contribution to an anthology about the GDR - i.e. East German - engagement in the Third World, Thomas Ruttig describes the case of PDPA-ruled Afghanistan and find what is left: mainly are the personal experience of Afghans working with GDR people and vice versa, apart from some printing machines and German textbooks.
Zu wenig, reichlich spät - Stabilisierungsmaßnahmen in Afghanistan zwischen Terrorismus- und Aufstandsbekämpfung
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (Bonn), 21-22/2010
Thomas Ruttig. This contribution to a weekly newspaper supplement of 7 articles on Pakistan and Afghanistan, discusses how much the new Obama/McChrystal strategy really represents a strategic shift (in German, avaibale on the web from 22 May onwards).
The Taliban Arrest Wave in Pakistan: Reasserting Strategic Depth?
CTC Sentinel, March 2010, vol. 3 issue 3
Thomas Ruttig. This article analyses the recent arrest wave of Afghan Taleban leaders in Pakistan and its implications for further attempts on talking to the Taleban
Money can't buy America love
Foreign Policy, 1 December 2009
AAN member Andrew Wilder presents the initial findings of a Tufts research on the linkages between aid and security,
Afghanistan´s Second Presidential Vote; How to Deal with a Flawed Election
Martine van Bijlert, In: Afghanistan 1979-2009: In the Grip of Conflict (e-book), Middle East Institute, Washington, December 2009.
Afghanistan’s Democrats: From underground into marginalisation
Thomas Ruttig, In: Afghanistan 1979-2009: In the Grip of Conflict (e-book), Middle East Institute, Washington, December 2009.
Afghanistans Wahlkrise (Afghanistan's Election Crisis)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A 56
In this 8-page SWP comment, Thomas Ruttig analyses the 'legitimacy crisis' that erupted after the manipulated 20 August elections, assesses that it contributes to minimise the chance that Gen. McChrystal's population-oriented counter-insurgency approach can be implemented and lays out steps to broaden the Afghan political process again in ordee to regain a broad national political consensus (in German).
Thomas Ruttig, Präsident Karzai vor zweiter Amtszeit? Sicherheitsprobleme und Legitimitätsdefizite bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Afghanistan
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik: Berlin, SWP-Aktuell 2009/A, August 2009
(President Karzai before a second term? Security problems and legitimacy deficits of Afghanistan‘s presidential elections - in German) Incumbent Hamed Karzai aims at a second term of office in Afghanistan‘s presidential elections on 20 August. A lack of alternatives, his astute positioning and use of institutional advantages as well as tactical errors of the new US administration have rekindled his chances. Due to shortcomings in the preparation, significant institutional deficiencies and the precarious security situation that create space for manipulations, it has to be suspected that the elections will neither be safe, transparent and inclusive. That can undermine the legitimacy of the election result in the eyes of the Afghan population.
Unruly Commanders and Violent Power Struggles: Taliban Networks in Uruzgan
Martine van Bijlert. In: Antonio Giustozzi (ed.) Decoding the New Taliban. Insights from the Afghan Field. Colombia: Hurst, 2009
Loya Paktia's Insurgency: The Haqqani Network as an Autonomous Entity in the Taliban Universe.
Thomas Ruttig, In: Antonio Giustozzi (ed.) Decoding the New Taliban. Insights from the Afghan Field. Colombia: Hurst, 2009
Imaginary Institutions; State Building in Afghanistan
Martine van Bijlert, In: Doing Good or Doing Better? Development Policies in a Globalising World. The Hague: WRR/Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy. June 2009.
Between Discipline and Discretion. Policies Surrounding Senior Subnational Appointments
Martine van Bijlert, AREU Briefing Paper, May 2009. Kabul: Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit
Rule of Law Deficits as a Security Challenge: ‘Touching the Surface’,
Sari Kouvo. NATO Review May 2009.
Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan
Initiative for Peacebuilding and International Centre for Transitional Justice
Sari Kouvo with Fatima Ayub and Rachel Wareham, May 2009
State-Building and Rule of Law: Lessons from Afghanistan?
NATO Defense College
Sari Kouvo, Forum Paper 6, March 2009
Addressing Gender-Specific Violations in Afghanistan
International Centre for Transitional Justice
Sari Kouvo with Fatima Ayub and Yasmin Sooka, February 2009.
Ann Wilkens: Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan
In: Kristina Zetterlund (ed.), Pakistan – Consequences of Deteriorating Security in Afghanistan, Stockholm: FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) January 2009, pp. 88-107
This book which contains contributions by Rohan Gunaratna, Imtiaz Gul, Stephen Cohen and others was part of a project on security policy development in Pakistan.
Bei Ausstieg Lebensgefahr: Herausforderungen an den neuen US-Präsidenten in Afghanistan
KAS-Auslandsinformationen 12/2008, pp. 69-82
Thomas Ruttig (Opting Out is Dangerous: Challenges Confronting the Incoming US President in Afghanistan)
Rule of Law Deficits as a Security Challenge: ‘Touching the Surface’,
By Sari Kouvo. NATO Review May 2009.
Mit Taliban reden – oder sie bombardieren?
INAMO No. 56 (winter 2008), pp. 33-36
Thomas Ruttig (Talk to Taliban - or Bomb Them?)
Thomas Ruttig: Mahmud Tarzi’s ideas and their influence on the movement of the Wesh Zalmian
Paper presented at the International conference on Allama Mahmoud Tarzi and Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi in Kabul, 23-24 August 2008 (unpublished)
The paper addresses the influence of the thoughts of Afghan nationalist and moderniser Mahmud Tarzi (1865-1933) on Afghanistan's 1940-50s pro-democratic opposition movement, the Wesh Zalmian (Awakened Youth),
Afghanistan: Institutionen ohne Demokratie. Strukturelle Schwächen des Staatsaufbaus in Afghanistan und Ansätze für eine politische Stabilisierung
SWP Research Paper 2008/S 17
Thomas Ruttig (Afghanistan: Institutions without Democracy. Structural weaknesses of state-building in Afghanistan and approaches for a political stabilisation)
A ‘Quick and Dirty’ Approach to Women’s Rights – A Case Study of Afghanistan
Feminist Legal Studies No. 16 (2008), pp. 37-46
Sari Kouvo
Righting the Course? Humanitarian Intervention, the War on Terror and the Future of Afghanistan
International Affairs Vol 84, No 4 (2008), pp. 641-657
Sari Kouvo with Fatima Ayub
Die Taleban nach Mulla Dadullah. Ihre Strukturen, ihr Programm - und ob man mit ihnen reden kann
SWP-Aktuell 2007/A 31
Thomas Ruttig (The Taleban after Mulla Dadullah. Their structures, programme – and whether one can talk with them)
Islamists, Leftists – and a Void in the Center. Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902-2006)
Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Kabul/Berlin 2006
Thomas Ruttig
The 2004 Afghan Presidential Elections and Challenges for the Forthcoming Parliamentary Elections
In: Moonis Ahmad (Ed.), The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan, Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi and The Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, 2005, pp. 61-71
Thomas Ruttig
Zur Bedeutung der bürgerlichen Oppositionsbewegung der 50er Jahre unseres Jahrhunderts für die Formierung progressiver politischer Kräfte in Afghanistan
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Sektion Asienwissenschaften, 1985
Thomas Ruttig: Diploma thesis on the reformist opposition movement of the 1940/50s (in German)
