ABSTRACT
The chapter presents a great review of the state and humanitarian negotiations. More work, however, is needed by the sector to develop a theoretical analysis to address the key fault lines that exist now in Afghanistan. The distrust and dilemmas run deep, which could be explained by the history of invasions of the countries, with the US invasion as the last one. The Afghanistan case points again to how politicised humanitarian aid is. In Afghanistan, such an analysis might allow us to understand why Taliban policies have been more in line with the protection of absolute sovereignty of the regime, fearing how foreign aid could be used as a means that they think is a threat to their authority. Such an analysis could present helpful ways and opportunities for foreign aid and organisations for their negotiations with the regime.
