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The Integrated Effect of Islamic Extremism and Strong Tribal Tradition in Afghanistan on the Disruption of the Afghan Nation-State Building and Terrorism and Drug Trafficking as Crisis of Security

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2012, 8(1), pp.155-176
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

윤민우 1 김종화 2

1Wheeling Jesuit University
2경기대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article explains about the disruption of nation-state building and symptoms of security crisis such as terrorism and drug trafficking in Afghanistan since 2011. This essay shows that terrorism and drug trafficking as types of security crisis in this country is closely related to the disruption of potent nation-state building, and the weak presence of nation and nationalism. Pulling-up force from above the nation-state level called Islamic extremism and pulling-down force from below called strong persistence of tribal tradition, by interacting together, prevent nation and nationalism from forming and incapacitate construction and operation of the nation-state in today's Afghanistan. Due to these hurdles, the Karzai's weakly built nation-state lacks legitimacy and law-enforcement capacity and thus cannot monopolize violence and protect local population in most of Afghan regions. Security crisis such as rampant terrorism and drug trafficking in this country is heavily influenced from this impotence of the central nation-state and further disrupts the construction of the stable nation-state. So, disruption of nation-state building and security crisis form full circle and feed with each other. The weakness of nation and nationalism resulting from strong anti-nation and anti-nationalism force such as Islamic extremism and strong tribal tradition is an effect behind misfortune of the full circle. The security crisis of Afghanistan observed today can be a case well showing that how the nation-state, which is hastily built by a foreign hand and thus not based on the sound formation of nation and nationalism, is vulnerable and that the vulnerable state can eventually lead to the disruption of the state and the crisis of security. By closely examining the case of Afghanistan, this essay suggests that the crisis of nation-state and security seen in the today's Afghanistan requires more complex and multidimensional understanding of nation, nationalism, and nation-state.

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