JISB Interview: ‘We Don't Want to Be a Rentier State Forever’

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Acknowledgements

The JISB would like to thank Uwe Trittmann, Director of Studies at Villigst Protestant Academy, for facilitating and kindly supporting our interview.

Notes on Contributors

Hamid Karzai comes from a family of Afghan politicians and studied international relations and political science in India. He served as interim and later elected President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, winning elections in 2004 and 2009. Before leaving office, he refused to sign the Status of Forces Agreement with the United States. He remains an outspoken voice in Afghan politics.

Notes

1 The agreement was signed on 2 May 2012 (see Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States of America 2012).