The Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi has been following the recent developments in Afghanistan closely and have been reflecting upon them through its various research publications. This edited volume, comprising research papers by the Research Faculty of ICWA, focuses on the recent crisis in Afghanistan, its fallout and the responses of the regional countries on the same. Discussions in this issue attempt to bring together fifteen research papers of ICWA on the developments in Afghanistan between July and November 2021. Contents: Foreword Contributors Introduction 1. Is there a Taliban 2.0? Reflecting on the Past to Understand the Present Anwesha Ghosh 2. Taliban Takeover Afghanistan: What’s Next? Anwesha Ghosh 3. The Taliban in ‘Power’: Twenty Years of US Involvement in Afghanistan Stuti Banerjee 4. Russia’s Poised Strategic Ambivalence in Afghanistan Vivek Mishra 5. Swift Changes in Afghanistan and Central Asia’s Response Athar Zafar 6. China’s Domestic Debate and Strategic Objectives vis-à-vis Recent Developments in Afghanistan Sanjeev Kumar 7. The Iranian Approach to the Taliban: Understanding Changes and Continuities Deepika Saraswat 8. Taliban 2.0 and the Arab World:Past and Present Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui 9. Qatar’s emergence as a key player in Afghanistan Anwesha Ghosh 10. Europe’s Afghanistan Conundrum Ankita Dutta 11. Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan: Anxieties in Africa Sankalp Gurjar 12. Southeast Asia and the Return of Taliban in Afghanistan Temjenmeren Ao 13. Latin America and Afghanistan Stuti Banerjee 14. The Race to Fill the Strategic Vacuum in Afghanistan Portends Instability Vivek Mishra 15. G20 pledges aid to avert humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan Anwesha Ghosh Index About the Author: Dr. Anwesha Ghosh is a Research Fellow at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi. She has taught at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany as a Lecturer while conducting her Post-doctoral research on international migration. She holds a doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Erfurt, an MPhil from the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies, Kolkata and double Masters in History and Development Studies from University of Calcutta and University of Rome, La Sapienza respectively. Dr. Ghosh is the author of Identity and Marginality in India, Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants (London, New York: Routledge, 2019). Her research interests include developments in India’s neighbourhood, foreign policy, migration with a specific focus on Afghanistan.