William Maley is Professor and Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Refugee Studies Programme at Oxford University. A regular visitor to Afghanistan, he is the author of Rescuing Afghanistan (London: Hurst & Co., 2006) and The Afghanistan Wars (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002); co-authored Regime Change in Afghanistan Foreign Intervention and the Politics of Legitimacy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1991) and Political Order in Post-Communist Afghanistan (Boulder: Lynee Rienner, 1992); edited Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (New York:: New York University, 1998, 2001); and co-edited The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), and From Civil Strife to Civil Society: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States (Tokyo; United Nations University Press, 2003).