Dr. Pamir Halimzai Sahill from SMSJM published the book on Afghanistan
Dr. Pamir Halimzai Sahill, a graduate of the doctoral program at the Department of International Studies and Diplomacy and a researcher at the Jan Masaryk Research Center for International Studies has just published a book on Afghanistan! The book “Turbulent Afghanistan: A Critical Analysis of the US Politics of Confinement and the Rise of the Taliban” was published by the prestigious publishing house Routledge. Congratulations!
The book explores the what, the why, and the how of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan almost 20 years after their removal from power. It examines how the U.S. discourses on War on Terror and state-building in Afghanistan have taken shape, became dominant over the past two decades, and to delineate their consequences. Also, it highlights how both discourses are representative of wider depoliticization of the society and eventually paved the way for the illiberal, oppressive politics of confinement and necropolitics. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, U.S. foreign policy, peace and conflict studies, area studies, especially West Asian and South Asian studies.“
Pamir Halimzai Sahill, Ph.D.
Pamir H. Sahill is a researcher at the Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations in 2021 from the University of Economics and Business in Prague. His doctoral research focuses on the discourses of the US War on Terror and state-building in Afghanistan. In the dissertation, he has developed two Foucauldian-inspired notions: the politics of confinement and biopower. With the help of these concepts, he offers a contextual and critical understanding of the US engagement in post-2001 Afghanistan and explains the (near)future transformation and alteration of security practices and warfare. His current research interests revolve around theoretically and empirically exploring the notions and discourses of international (in)security, terrorism, post-conflict state-building, developmentalism (as an ideology nudging the traditional frames of the left and right), state, sovereignty, and identities-borders-orders (IBO). He specialises in International Security, Terrorism Studies, Theories of Globalization, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, State-building Theory, and Practice, (Foucauldian) Poststructuralism, Post-colonialism and Developmentalism, the politics and security of Afghanistan, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
