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100			_aSharma, Raghav _953328
245			_aDiscerning Taliban 2.0 and Afghanistan’s political landscape
260			_aIndia Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
300			_a80(1), Mar, 2024: p.9-25
520			_aPolitically astute and organisationally deft, the Taliban forged ‘antagonistic cooperation’ with key regional players who courted the movement vigorously as it sought to reinvent itself as ‘Taliban 2.0’. However, two years into the rule of ‘Taliban 2.0’, the chasm between rhetoric and reality has widened. This article disaggregates the idea of ‘Taliban 2.0’, arguing that subtle differences notwithstanding the Taliban is an ideological movement which demonstrates a remarkable contiguity in showing fidelity to its hardline ideology manifested in its attitudes towards women, deployment of violence and links with transnational actors. Domestic political actors too stuttered in responding to the Taliban’s momentum amid a dramatically reconfigured geo-political landscape, a glaring power asymmetry, factionalism within opposition ranks and the rise of new actors like the Daesh which attempted to fill the void.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09749284231225677
650			_aTaliban 2.0, Antagonistic cooperation, Regional players, Rhetoric vs. reality, Ideological movement, Hardline ideology, Attitudes towards women, Deployment of violence, Transnational actors, Domestic political actors, Geo-political landscape, Power asymmetry, Opposition factionalism, Rise of Daesh, Political momentum. _953329
773			_aIndia Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
906			_aINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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