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Taliban’s Supreme Leader Belongs on the UN Terrorist List

Jul 26, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Annie Pforzheimer

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Taliban's Supreme Leader Belongs on the UN Terrorist List

Jul 26, 2024 | jurist.org | James Joseph |Annie Pforzheimer |Jason C. Howk

In this piece, the authors, Annie Pforzheimer, a former U.S. diplomat who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan; and Jason Howk is a former U.S. military officer who is the Director of the Global Friends of Afghanistan, who has focused since 2002 on counterterrorism, defense, and intelligence matters.present a comprehensive analysis of a recent UN report on sanctions against the Taliban.
U.S. Foreign Aid: Smart Strategy or Fiscal Folly? — Divided We Fall

Jun 26, 2024 | dividedwefall.org | Paul Gessing |Annie Pforzheimer

Does Foreign Aid Promote Our Interests Abroad or Squander Taxpayer Money? By Paul Gessing, President, Rio Grande Foundation, and Annie Pforzheimer, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)By Paul Gessing, President, Rio Grande FoundationThe United States spends approximately $70 billion in federal foreign aid each year. While foreign aid is only about 1 percent of total spending, the U.S. federal government is $35 trillion in debt and counting.
Security Through Human Rights – For Afghanistan, It’s Not ‘Either/Or’ – The Diplomat

Jun 24, 2024 | thediplomat.com | Annie Pforzheimer |Asila Wardak

Civil rights and the personal safety of all citizens are mainstream security conversations, not “nice to have” goals or “Western” inventions.
In Battle to Slow Precursor Chemicals in Mexico, Public-Private Partnerships Are a Path Not Taken

May 31, 2024 | insightcrime.org | Annie Pforzheimer

It was days before Super Bowl LVI in February 2022, the biggest guacamole day of the year in the United States, when a threatening call came into the government-issued cell phone of a US agricultural safety inspector working in Michoacán, Mexico. Michoacán is the heart of the $4 billion avocado industry. To facilitate cross-border trade, the US Department of Agriculture sends inspectors like this one that make sure the avocados are not carrying diseases or insects that may hurt US production.
México no ha optado por alianzas público-privadas para frenar el flujo ilícito de precursores químicos

May 31, 2024 | insightcrime.org | Annie Pforzheimer

Unos días antes del Super Bowl LVI, en febrero de 2022, el día de mayor consumo de guacamole del año en Estados Unidos, una llamada amenazante entró al teléfono celular oficial de un inspector de seguridad agrícola estadounidense que trabajaba en Michoacán, México. Michoacán es el corazón de la industria multimillonaria del aguacate.
Addressing a Human Rights and Looming Terrorism Crisis in Afghanistan

Mar 21, 2024 | cnas.org | Gibbs McKinley |Lisa Curtis |Annie Pforzheimer

Executive Summary Pursuing the same harsh policies as it did during its previous stint in power in the 1990s, the Taliban has increasingly clamped down on the rights of women and girls since recapturing control of Afghanistan in August 2021. Restrictions on education started with the Taliban mandate in March 2022 banning girls from attending school past the sixth grade.
Looking Beyond Military Action in Solving the Fentanyl Crisis

Mar 2, 2024 | gjia.georgetown.edu | Annie Pforzheimer

About half of Americans polled in September 2023 were in favor of sending U.S. armed forces into Mexico to fight drug cartels. Unfortunately, fentanyl trafficking and the unacceptably high number of American deaths due to overdoses cannot be addressed through mere military action.
The U.S. Shouldn’t Upgrade Ties With Afghanistan’s Taliban

Nov 6, 2023 | worldpoliticsreview.com | Annie Pforzheimer

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has quietly begun to soften Washington’s stance on the Taliban as a sponsor of terrorism, despite an authoritative report by United Nations experts in June 2023 noting the “strong and symbiotic” links between the Taliban, the Haqqani network, al-Qaida and other terror groups.
More Policy Avenues to Fight Fentanyl

Jul 17, 2023 | csis.org | Annie Pforzheimer

In a recent CSIS commentary, a former assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere rightly called for new policy options to combat fentanyl’s devastating impact. She highlighted how combating fentanyl and its variants—the most potent opioids currently known—requires an immediate retooling of supply-side counternarcotics approaches that may have been appropriate in the past.