Rustam Ali Seerat
Short vita
Rustam Ali Seerat is a final year doctoral candidate at the Department of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi. He is interested in studying identity politics and ethnic and gender representations. His articles and opinion pieces have been published by the Diplomat Magazine, Foreign Policy, the Wire, Al-Jazeera, London School of Economics (LSE) Blog, South Asia Monitor, CounterPunch, Geopolitics, Global Voices, and the Institute of Chinese Studies (New Delhi) Blog. Besides his education, he has worked as a freelance translator for the last ten years with government and non-governmental organizations. He is a keen follower of current world affairs and has written much about it. He also has experience in writing research papers, policy briefs and opinion pieces mostly focussed but not limited to Afghanistan.
Contributions
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China Navigates a New Afghanistan with the Taliban as its Rulers
Chinese diplomats visiting Kabul, view the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover as the beginning of a “new era” of independent development and a transition from “chaos to order.”
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Impact of the War in Ukraine: Afghanistan’s perspective
The shock waves of the Ukraine war have impacted energy and grain markets worldwide, including countries like Afghanistan. According to World Food Programme (WFP) reports, the prices of basic commodities such as grains, cooking oils, and fuel began to rise in February 2022. While they picked up in June of the same year, they declined in its second half.
