The US-Afghan Taliban Peace Process
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2021
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UMT.lahore
Abstract
American foreign policy is always based on their strategic interests and power to get hegemon at
the international level. America always pursues its foreign policy objectives through its
exceptional nature and against the “axis of evil” which threatened its national security. Such as the
1970s the Sino-American rapprochement, 1980s the American proxy war against Russia in
Afghanistan, and after 9/11, direct military action in Afghanistan. This research critically examines
the recent Afghan conundrum in the context of US policy from war to peace in Afghanistan. Why
the US-led alliance is compelled by the situation to make a political settlement through peaceful
means? Moreover, it addresses the role of Pakistan in the war on terror to the peace process through
convergence and divergence of US interests toward Pakistan, especially from an Afghanistan
perspective. And shows itself as a responsible neighbor state by engaging the US and Taliban, and
other stakeholders. Realism has been applied to analyze the US interests in the Afghan peace
process and Pakistan-US relations with reference to Afghanistan. Realism examines US foreign
policy rationale and objectives toward withdrawal from Afghanistan. . This study also analyze that
how and in what manner India is impacted by the process of peace.