Robert Crews

Robert Denniston Crews is an American historian and tenured Professor of History at Stanford University. His research focuses on Afghanistan, Russia, Central Asia, and Islam in global history. He is the author of For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (2006) and Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation (2015), both published by Harvard University Press, and serves on the editorial advisory board of Afghanistan, the peer‑reviewed journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies published by Edinburgh University Press. He has previously served as that journal's editor-in-chief.

Across 1 conversation, Robert Crews ranges across opium trade, 9/11, U.S. foreign policy. Robert Crews critiques the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan as a hasty reaction to 9/11, driven by panic and misjudgment of the enemy. The Taliban's control over Afghanistan is hindered by a lack of functional governance and economic infrastructure, exacerbated by international isolation.

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