{"id":1209,"date":"2019-03-30T05:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2019-03-30T05:28:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T05:28:57","slug":"weighing-the-cost-of-the-bsa-in-the-domestic-and-neighbourhood-contexts-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"Weighing the Cost of the BSA in the Domestic and Neighbourhood Contexts (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 14, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Mallory Sutika Sipus, Senior Research Analyst<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">As negotiations remain on-going for the US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement, recent developments have yet to signal a significant shift in policy orientation regarding the post-2014 relationship between the United States and the Afghan state. As discussed in Part I of this series, US-Afghan Security Agreement: Competing Notions of Sovereignty the areas of contention in the BSA negotiations suggest that the United States has a very different understanding of an independent Afghanistan than the latter has for itself. I argued that the notion of sovereignty advanced by both were fundamentally at odds with one another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caps.af\/Doc\/2013_05_14_BSA_(Part_2)_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/caps.af\/Doc\/2013_05_14_BSA_Part_2_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Full Article,file type (Pdf) 156 kb )\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 14, 2013 By Mallory Sutika Sipus, Senior Research Analyst As negotiations remain on-going for the US-Afghan Bilateral Security Agreement, recent developments have yet to signal a significant shift in policy orientation regarding the post-2014 relationship between the United States and the Afghan state. As discussed in Part I of this series, US-Afghan Security Agreement: [&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-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}