Matthew DuPee

Research Associate

Matt DuPee has independently studied political and security events happening in Afghanistan since 1999. Mr. DuPee worked as the managing editor for Afgha.com between 2004 and 2008 and served as the director of North America operations for Asia Despatch. In 2009, he participated in a research trip to southern Afghanistan.

Mr. DuPee’s articles have been published in a variety of publications including the CTC Sentinel,World Almanac of Islamism, World Politics Review, Himal SouthAsian Magazine, Asia Despatch, the Frontier Post, the Financial Post, Soldier of Fortune, Asia Times Online, the Middle East Times, e-Ariana, The Center for Conflict and Peace Studies, and others.

Now serving as a Research Associate with the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies, Mr. DuPee continues his research on Afghanistan’s narcotics, politics, security, geography and human terrain issues. He serves as an assistant editor to the CCS webpage and webjournal. He has also contributed to the Regional Security Education Program briefing deploying troops on Afghanistan.

Mr. DuPee earned his M.A. in Regional Security Studies (South Asia) from the Naval Postgraduate School and won the Naval Postgraduate School Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for a Department of Defense student. His thesis examined the interaction between criminal organizations, narcotics production, and insurgent movements and how this nexus can affect political outcomes. He has a BFA degree in film and video production from Point Park University and received intelligence analyst training from Neumann University.

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M.A. Thesis

The Narcotics Emirate of Afghanistan: Armed Polities and Their Roles in Illicit Drug Production and Conflict 1980–2010 (PDF)

Culture & Conflict Review Articles:

• Operation Nusrat (Victory): Understanding the Taliban Threat to Kunduz Province, Vol. 3, # 3 - Fall 2009
• Can You Hear Me Now? Telecommunications Remain Resilient in War Torn Afghanistan, Vol. 3, #2 - Summer 2009
• Phantom War: Afghanistan’s Child “Chemists” and Counternarcotics, Vol. 3, #1 - Spring 2009
• Badghis Province:Examining the Taliban’s Northwestern Campaign, Vol. 2, # 4 - Special Edition 2008

Other Printed Articles and Commentary

• Can Afghanistan's Counternarcotics Efforts Survive NATO Withdrawal? World Politics Review, July 14, 2011
• Crystal Crescent, Drug Link-Drug Scope, March 15, 2011.
• Iranians in Malaysia Make a Hit, Asia Times Online,February 8, 2011
• High Times for Iranian Drug Mafia, Asia Times Online, January 5, 2011
• The Taliban, The American Foreign Policy Council’s World Almanac of Islamism, 2010
• The Transforming Threat of Southwest Asia's Narcotics Industry, Wolrd Politics Review,  November 24, 2010
• The Rising Storm of Afghanistan’s Burgeoning Hashish Trade, Asia Despatch, November 13, 2010
• The Geopolitical Context of Iran’s War on Drugs, Asia Despatch, November 9, 2010
• NATO's Unlikely Counternarcotics Bedfellow, Asia Despatch, November 5, 2010
• Loaves, not bombs, pose significant threat, Asia Times Online, September 17, 2010
• “Tensions Rise Between Hizb-i-Islami and the Taliban in Afghanistan,” Matthew DuPee and Anand Gopal, CTC Sentinel, August 2010
• Afghan Poppy Blight a Small Hit, Matthew DuPee and Ahmad Waheed, Asia Times Online, June 22, 2010
• Afghanistan's Poppy Blight Could Mean Trouble for War Effort, World Politics Review, May 21, 2010
• In Afghanistan, Poppy Eradication Pits Russia vs. NATO, Matthew C. DuPee and Sara Kauffman, World Politics Review, April 20, 2010
  
• Iran's 30-Year War on Drugs, World Politics Review, February 10, 2010
• Afghanistan's Other Narcotics Nightmare, World Politics Review, October 1, 2009
• Opium Den, Himal Southasian Magazine, July 2009

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