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The article analyzes minerals, rare-earth elements, petroleum, and natural gas reserves of Afghanistan and the geopolitical struggle over these natural resources in relation with domestic political and institutional factors. Following the Taliban’s military and political takeover of Afghanistan once again in 2021, the country’s natural resource wealth and its fate have been brought to the international agenda, again. In one hand, the Taliban took control of the vast and geopolitically important economic resources on the other hand, the access of some world powers such as Russia and China to Afghanistan’s natural resources and the geopolitical power struggle has been discussed.

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