Zhulduz Baizakova is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security and Cooperation Issues and Lecturer of the International Relations Faculty at Al Farabi Kazakh National University.
Niels Terpstra is a PhD Researcher in Conflict Studies at the History of International Relations section at Utrecht University.
In the study of International Relations we tend to understand the problems in Afghanistan as a result of the world’s great powers, quite similar to the dynamics of the ‘Great…