{"id":1202,"date":"2019-03-30T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:23:42","slug":"us-afghan-security-agreement-competing-notions-of-sovereignty-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"US-Afghan Security Agreement: Competing Notions of Sovereignty? (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jan 16, 2013<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Mallory Sutika Sipus, Senior Research Analyst<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">On 2 May 2012, US President Barak Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan signed a Joint Partnership Agreement (JPA) that reiterated the two countries\u2019 shared commitment to Afghanistan\u2019s future and a continued diplomatic partnership between nations. More importantly, the partnership agreement called for the United States and Afghanistan to commence negotiations on a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would detail the specifics, attributes and goals for a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 security transition deadline.\u00a0 According to the JPA, the BSA negotiation process should take no more than one year from its initial commencement, which began in mid-November 2012. Already, however, the BSA negotiations have been fraught with challenges and it is clear that significant obstacles stand in the way of a signed document.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caps.af\/Doc\/US_AFG_BSA_FINAL.pdf\">(Full Article,file type (Pdf) 148 kb )\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 16, 2013 By Mallory Sutika Sipus, Senior Research Analyst On 2 May 2012, US President Barak Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan signed a Joint Partnership Agreement (JPA) that reiterated the two countries\u2019 shared commitment to Afghanistan\u2019s future and a continued diplomatic partnership between nations. More importantly, the partnership agreement called for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}