Benjamin Hopkins

Benjamin Hopkins is a professor of history and international affairs at the George Washington University and the author of The Making of Modern Afghanistan.

Dec

Freezing

What’s happening in Afghanistan? Benjamin Hopkins on why a humanitarian disaster is imminent and how the country was set up to fail over and over again.

14 Dec 2021

12 min read

Sep

Nothing is easy

Just how secure is the Taliban’s control over Afghanistan? Benjamin Hopkins on foreign subsidies, the drug trade, and civil war.

07 Sep 2021

14 min read