Perils of US-Taliban Peace Negotiations
Popalzai, Z. (2019). Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS), Kabul, 12 February 2019.
Research record
Afghanistan Research & Publications
Research on the Taliban, Afghan state-building, governance, security institutions, international intervention and political order.
Taliban, Conflict & Security
Insider Attacks: Some Perspectives of the Afghan Security Forces
Popalzai, Z. (2012). Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS), Kabul.
State-building, Governance & Political Order
Understanding the Aberration of the Liberal Ontology of International State-Building
Popalzai, Z. (2016). In A. Basu Roy & S. Sarkar (eds.), The Political Future of Afghanistan. KW Publishers. ISBN 978-93-83649-75-4.
State-building and Fragility of Personality-dependent Political Order
Popalzai, Z. (2014). E-International Relations, 7 May 2014.
Neo-liberal State-building and Displacement of the Afghan State
Popalzai, Z. (2013). Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS), 16 January 2013.
State-building and the Continuation of Warlordism in Afghanistan
Popalzai, Z. (2012). In A. Basu Roy (ed.), International Intervention in Afghanistan. Delhi: Shipra Publications.
Aid, Development & International Intervention
The Great State Building Game: Post Taliban Afghanistan
Popalzai, Z. (2008). In A. Basu Roy (ed.), Challenges and Dilemmas of State Building in Afghanistan: Report of a Study Trip to Kabul. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. ISBN 978-81-7541-464-8.
The Aid and Power Nexus in Rebuilding Afghanistan
Popalzai, Z. (2008). In A. Basu Roy (ed.), Challenges and Dilemmas of State Building in Afghanistan: Report of a Study Trip to Kabul. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. ISBN 978-81-7541-464-8.
Doctoral Thesis
State-Building in Post-Taleban Afghanistan and the Fragility of Personality-dependent Order: Reflections on Kandahar and Balkh Provinces
Popalzai, Z. (2011). PhD thesis, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan.
Selected Conference Paper
Re-understanding International State Building: The Hollowing Out of Sovereignty
Popalzai, Z. (2012). Paper presented at the international seminar BONN '01 to BONN '11: Debating Afghanistan's Political Future, 8–9 February 2012, organised by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata, in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR), Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.