Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan: Case Study of Taliban.

Abstract

During the administration of President Donald Trump, the foreign policy of United States towards Afghanistan has entered into a new phase. As the war on terror in Afghanistan has been a dominant concern of U.S government after the 9/11 incident. Donald Trump was adamant about overhauling US foreign policy and putting 'America First.' According to which United States has faced the loss at both financial and mass level and don’t want to spend their resources on war anymore. United States accepted that Taliban are the dominant and the most influential political actors in Afghanistan, and this war can be concluded only when Taliban will be ready to end this war. This approach towards Taliban was the cause behind the initiation of peace talks between United States and Afghanistan. This Research is based on descriptive-explanatory method. The aim to conduct this research was to analyze President Trump’s policy towards Taliban who targeted U.S and used the land of Afghanistan for terrorist activities through the lens of neoclassical realism. Neoclassical realist believe that foreign policy of any state is a combination of internal and external factors both, specially this theory emphasis more on the role of domestic factors of state which impacts on the formulation of any state’s foreign policy. In order to resolve Afghanistan war, which was the longest war of history and United States, was unable to resolve with the help of military means because of increasing financial and political pressure of Taliban, which was increasing the financial pressure of U.S government, In order to resolve this issue president Donald Trump went for political solution with Taliban which resulted in U.S Taliban peace deal.