{"id":8506,"date":"2026-08-27T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:58:32","slug":"afghanistans-strategic-indispensability-under-taliban-rule-conditional-legitimacy-and-regional-security-complex-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/afghanistans-strategic-indispensability-under-taliban-rule-conditional-legitimacy-and-regional-security-complex-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s Strategic Indispensability Under Taliban Rule: Conditional Legitimacy and Regional Security Complex Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. This\u00a0 geographic reality has historically attracted external influence and great-power competition.<sup>1<\/sup> The Taliban regained control of the government in August 2021, following the rapid\u00a0 withdrawal of NATO troops. This has further complicated the situation and made it a key issue\u00a0 in International Relations (IR) theory. Internal factors influence regional actors, and the\u00a0 international system has hesitated to fully accept the Taliban\u2019s role.<sup>2 <\/sup>Complex forms of\u00a0 engagement are now occurring. This case challenges mainstream IR views, which assert that\u00a0 states must be recognised before formal interaction and cooperation. The aim of this paper is\u00a0 to answer the following research question: How does the Taliban regime in Afghanistan gain\u00a0 de facto \u2018strategic-necessity legitimacy\u2019 in its regional security complex, despite limited formal\u00a0 recognition?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jgu.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/cas\/CAS+Conference_Deb+and+Goel+-+Soumyaditya+Deb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Know More<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jsia\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}