Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society?
The defined purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of post-modernizing pre-modern societies, having as example the case of Afghanistan. Assuming that political modernity implies the existence of a centralized state, we will show that there never was a modern period in the history of Afgh...
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| description | The defined purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of post-modernizing pre-modern societies, having as example the case of Afghanistan. Assuming that political modernity implies the existence of a centralized state, we will show that there never was a modern period in the history of Afghanistan. The last part of this paper focuses on presenting the impact that the phenomenon of post-modernization has had on Afghanistan, by analysing four characteristics of the contemporary world – the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union: the critique of the fungible character of power; the privatisation of security; the new types of wars; the regionalization and fragmentation of the world. The dilemma that needs to be solved is that of surpassing the risks brought about by the co-existence of three levels of evolution: the pre-modern level (the segmented Afghan society), the modern level (the attempt to found a centralized state), the post-modern level (the attempt to anchor the new-founded state in the global system, from a political, economic and cultural point of view). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6e30d64a2d20457da1fdee1b546763fd2025-08-20T03:14:47ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732009-09-01931633Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society?Liviu Bogdan Vlad0Adina Negrea1Associate Professor Phd., Faculty of International Business and Economics, Bucharest, Academy of Economic StudiesAttaché at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, MA in Geopolitics and International Relations, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Bucharest, Academy of Economic Studies. MA in European and International Law, Faculty of Law, “Nicolae Titulescu” University BucharestThe defined purpose of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of post-modernizing pre-modern societies, having as example the case of Afghanistan. Assuming that political modernity implies the existence of a centralized state, we will show that there never was a modern period in the history of Afghanistan. The last part of this paper focuses on presenting the impact that the phenomenon of post-modernization has had on Afghanistan, by analysing four characteristics of the contemporary world – the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union: the critique of the fungible character of power; the privatisation of security; the new types of wars; the regionalization and fragmentation of the world. The dilemma that needs to be solved is that of surpassing the risks brought about by the co-existence of three levels of evolution: the pre-modern level (the segmented Afghan society), the modern level (the attempt to found a centralized state), the post-modern level (the attempt to anchor the new-founded state in the global system, from a political, economic and cultural point of view).https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_Vol_9_No3_AFGHANISTAN_POST-MODERNIZING_A_PRE-MODERN_SOCIETY.pdfgeopoliticsinternational relationsmodernismpoliticspostmodernism |
| spellingShingle | Liviu Bogdan Vlad Adina Negrea Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society? Romanian Journal of European Affairs geopolitics international relations modernism politics postmodernism |
| title | Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society? |
| title_full | Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society? |
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| title_short | Afghanistan: Post-Modernizing a Pre-modern Society? |
| title_sort | afghanistan post modernizing a pre modern society |
| topic | geopolitics international relations modernism politics postmodernism |
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