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The Lawfare Podcast: A New Sanctions Approach for Humanitarian Assistance
For years, the international community has wrestled with how to reconcile sanctions policies targeting terrorist groups and other malevolent actors with the need to provide hu...
By Alex Zerden
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The Lawfare Podcast: The Biden Administration and Afghanistan’s Frozen Assets
The Biden administration on Friday notified a court of a novel proposal to dispose of $7 billion in frozen Afghanistan assets, producing some pretty confusing media and a lot ...
By Alex Zerden
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Hunger Crisis in Afghanistan
Is it time to stop the freeze of the country's financial assets and donor aid or will that just legitimise the Taliban? Ed Butler speaks to John Sifton, the Asia advocacy dire...
By Alex Zerden
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Facing a Humanitarian Crisis and Renewed Terror Threat in Afghanistan
Financial Crime Matters talks with Alex Zerden about his time as Treasury attaché at the United States Embassy in Kabul, the worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and t...
By Alex Zerden
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Economic Crisis in Afghanistan
Alex Zerden, founder and principal of Capitol Peak Strategies discusses the economic crisis in Afghanistan. He spoke with Bloomberg's David Westin. Listen to the full convers...
By Alex Zerden
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Afghanistan's Economy Has Worsened Since The Taliban Took Power
Center for a New American Security Adjunct Senior Fellow Alex Zerden speaks to NPR about Afghanistan's struggling economy under Taliban rule. Listen to the full conversation ...
By Alex Zerden
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The Afghan economy
The Taliban are now in charge, and the immediate prospects for the Afghan economy are dire. Sanctions have effectively cut the country off from the global financial system. Fo...
By Alex Zerden
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The Taliban Controls The Afghan Economy. Now What?
Former U.S. financial attaché to Afghanistan Alex Zerden discusses the Taliban's takeover and the enormous shocks it will send across Afghanistan's commercial and banking syst...
By Alex Zerden
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Afghanistan Economy Collapse
Alex Zerden discusses the collapse of the Afghanistan economy with Bloomberg's David Westin. Listen to the full conversation from Bloomberg....
By Alex Zerden