Alex Thier | The New York Review of Books

Alex Thier

Alex Thier is the founder of Triple Helix, a US-based consultancy firm that aims to increase access to off-grid, renewable energy in developing countries, and the editor of The Future of Afghanistan (2009). A former executive director of the Overseas Development Institute in London, he was also a senior US official in various capacities involving Afghanistan and Pakistan during the Obama administration. (September 2019)

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Beyond Afghanistan’s ‘Graveyard for the Living’

Even before President Trump’s bungled diplomacy undercut months of patient effort by his envoy, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, the notoriously doctrinaire Taliban have shown little taste for compromise. Their rhetoric, which always tends toward the histrionic, is now triumphalist.

September 24, 2019