HeyJaredKabul Institute
Focused on conflict, ethical governance, and geopolitics — driving change through facts, clarity, and bold ideas.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Aug 10, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 13, 2026
Latest issues
Policy Roundtable: Afghanistan's Aid Dependency (opens the original)
Read excerpt
For two decades, international assistance financed the majority of Afghanistan’s public expenditure, without ever building the domestic revenue base a sovereign state requires. When that support withdrew in 2021, the structure it had propped up collapsed with it. The question this roundtable asks is not whether the warning signs existed. It is why they were documented for years and never acted on.Join Kabul Institute for the second session in our accountability dialogue series, built around our
OPINION | The water crisis can’t be delayed until tomorrow; Afghanistan is thirsty. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Kabul is currently experiencing one of the most serious water shortages in its recent history. According to UN reports, the city’s groundwater resources will be completely depleted by 2030. Kabul isn’t a small town or a village; it’s a big city with a population close to six million. Yet, the possibility that these six million people might not have access to drinking water in the next four years hasn’t yet become a major headline in the region.Kabul’s groundwater levels have fallen by approximat
New Policy Paper - Afghanistan's Dependency Trap (opens the original)
Read excerpt
For decades, Afghanistan has been one of the largest recipients of foreign assistance in the world. More than 150 billion dollars in non-military aid flowed into the country between 2001 and 2021 alone. By any measure of spending, it should have produced a durable state. Instead, it produced a system that could not survive the day its funders walked away. Read more
Episode 01: The Fall of a Nation (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Every nation has a story. For Afghans, the tragedy is that ours has almost always been told by someone else: soldiers, diplomats, journalists, politicians, foreigners, and aid workers. Everyone but us. In this premiere episode of Beyond the Frontline , we take you behind the headlines to reclaim the Afghan story. From the fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021, to the collapse of social order that followed, we explore the human experiences, the betrayals, and the truths often buried beneath foreign na
KABUL INSTITUTE | Afghanistan's Dependency Trap: Join the Roundtable (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Aid has kept Afghanistan afloat for two decades. It has also, in critical ways, kept Afghanistan from ever standing on its own. Our second policy paper, Afghanistan’s Dependency Trap: How Sixty Years of Foreign Aid Replaced State Legitimacy — and Why the Cycle Could Repeat, by Layma Murtaza, makes the case directly: the same aid architecture that failed the Republic is now being rebuilt, often without anyone noticing, inside the post-2021 humanitarian response.The paper traces how external fundi
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.