Arpita Basu RoyArpita Basu Roy is a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata and a Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics andInternational Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge and the recipient of the 10th Wrangler Pavate Fellowship for International Studies (2010). She has been working on Central and South Asia, with Afghanistan being the area of her specific interest since 2000. She is the author of Afghanistan: Towards a Viable State (2002), and Contemporary Afghanistan: Conflict and Peace-building (2010). Read More Read Less