Kaweh Kerami argues that the Taliban’s first visit to Brussels was not recognition, as the EU insists, but something politically consequential all the same: proof that repeated contact can hand an unrecognised regime real standing, one technical meeting at a time
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
Kaweh received his PhD in Development Studies from SOAS University of London in 2024.
A political scientist by background, Kaweh works on elite bargaining, state-building, and information control in conflict-affected and war-torn societies, using Afghanistan as his main empirical case.
His monograph is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.
Prior to academia, he worked as a journalist for the BBC World Service.
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