American and Canadian Counterinsurgency Strategies in Afghanistan

Federman Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of International Relations, Political and Urban Studies at Rosario University, Bogotá, Colombia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Countries with Different Material Capabilities Behaving Similarly.- 3. Unipolarity and Irregular Warfare: Assessing the Afghanistan Intervention’s Strategic Environment.- 4. American and Canadian Security Beliefs: Transitioning to Similar Foreign and Security Policies during the Afghanistan Intervention.- 5. Domestic Hurdles, Canadian and American Foreign Policy Executives(FPEs)’ Structural Autonomy and Resource-Extraction Capability.- 6. Conclusion: Unravelling the Research Puzzle.