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Deepak Tripathi, former BBC correspondent and editor, is a researcher and an author with reference to South and West Asia and US foreign policy. He set up the BBC Office in Kabul and was correspondent in Afghanistan in the early 1990s. He is the author of a study of Afghanistan in the Cold War, to be published as a book. His research findings are published in 'Dialectics of the Afghanistan Conflict' by the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His book 'Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan' is to be published by Potomac Books, Inc in the United States in November 2009.
His articles have appeared in international publications such as The Economist and The Daily Telegraph of London, as well as the History News Network of George Mason University, CounterPunch, Online Journal and the Palestine Chronicle.
Deepak Tripathi is a member of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.