As US troops leave Afghanistan, what’s next?

As the US withdraws its troops in Afghanistan, the question now is whether the Afghan government—or another international force—can stop a resurgent Taliban from using violence to seize power, says Robert Crews.

Crews, professor of history in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, is the author of Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2012), and The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Harvard University Press, 2009).

He is also editor in chief of Afghanistan, an academic journal that takes a cross-cultural, humanities-oriented approach to the study of Afghanistan and its surrounding regions.

Here, Crews, whose research and teaching focuses on Afghanistan and global history, discusses what America’s end of its two-decades-long war on August 31 means for the future of Afghanistan and its people at a time when the Taliban has expanded its reach across the country:

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