Hossien Rafi; Mohsen Bakhtiari Jami
Volume 20, Issue 88 , March 2015, , Pages 33-58
Abstract
The end of mission of international forces in Afghanistan and the transfer of supplying security to the Afghan's military forces has merely resulted in failure of United States of America ...
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The end of mission of international forces in Afghanistan and the transfer of supplying security to the Afghan's military forces has merely resulted in failure of United States of America in elimination of terrorism and promotion of permanent Peace. Adopting a new strategy by America has only given rise to tension with the Afghan's government. The intervention of neighboring rival powers aiming to influence, has made Afghanistan for the rivals a place to maintain their interests without take into consideration the former national sovereignty. Reflection of ethnic and religious diversity of the society in political and military - security institutions had a devastating impacts on the successful performance of the institutions. By growth of drugs trade, economic self-sufficiency of rural areas and empowerment of the insurgencies, the government has been losing control on those areas. Meanwhile, the sophisticated developments resulted from death of Taliban’s leader and the split in the new leadership, has made more difficult achieving a long-lasting peace between government and the two large groups of rebels which been in war with each other. This article by utilizing descriptive – analytical method attempt to answer to this question that what factors have prevented establishing peace and stability in Afghanistan? The study apply the realism as theoretical framework and use qualitative method for analyzing the data. The writers assume that competitive interference of the foreign states and preferring of their own interests than Afghanistan’s ones and internal social and cultural grounds are the main obstacles in establishing peace in Afghanistan.
