Indhold: Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era (Afghanistan : a geopolitical paradox / Amin Saikal. U.S. policies and practices toward Afghanistan and Central Asia since 2001 / M. Nazif Shahrani). Traditional regional players (A new phase in relations between Iran and Afghanistan / Shahram Akbarzadeh. Beyond strategic depth? : Pakistan's evolving relationship with Afghanistan / Aly Zaman. "New regionalism" and Afghanistan : the role of India / Meena Singh Roy). Afghanistan as viewed from Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, desecuritization, and regional security / Reuel R. Hanks. Kazakhstan's policy toward Afghanistan : context, drivers, and outcomes / Nargis Kassenova. Political and economic pragmatism : Turkmenistan and Afghanistan since 1991 / Sebastien Peyrouse. Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan's diminishing relationship / Christian Bleuer. Central Asian security after 2014 : the case of Tajikistan / Mahmadyusuf Tashrifov). Afghanistan and Central Asia in a wider international context (Russia's Afghanistan policy after 2014 : staying at an arm's lenght and preparing for the worst / Kirill Nourzhanov. China in Afghanistan : navigating a "terrain of hazards" in search of geopolitical opportunity? / Michael Clarke. The European Union in the heartland : a normative power looking for a strategy in Central Asia / Emilian Kavalski)