The Impact of Afghanistan's Foreign Policy on its Economic Underdevelopment: From the Bonn Conference to the Resurgence of the Islamic Emirate

Eslami, Rohollah; Rahimi, Atiqullah; Movahed, Ali Ahmad

The Impact of Afghanistan's Foreign Policy on its Economic Underdevelopment: From the Bonn Conference to the Resurgence of the Islamic Emirate

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Rohollah Eslami ¹

Atiqullah Rahimi ²

Ali Ahmad Movahed ³

¹ Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad - Mashhad - Iran

² Doctoral student of political science at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and member of the academic staff of Jami University of Herat, Afghanistan

³ Graduated from the Bachelor of Laws and Political Sciences of Jami University of Afghanistan

Abstract

Following the establishment of a new structure supported by the international community following the extensive upheavals and instability in Afghanistan in 2001, it was expected that the country would move towards modernization and development. However, after twenty years, this expectation was not realized. Afghanistan's underdevelopment has led to increased chaos, lack of rule of law, and dependency. This research aims to examine the impact of Afghanistan's foreign policy on the country's economic underdevelopment from the Bonn Conference to the re-establishment of the Islamic Emirate. The main hypothesis is that the lack of an effective foreign policy doctrine has been the most significant factor in Afghanistan's underdevelopment. This article employs dependency theory as its theoretical framework and utilizes a descriptive-analytical method, referencing library sources to investigate the role of Afghanistan's foreign policy in its economic underdevelopment. The results show that an independent foreign policy and dependency on regional and extra-regional powers have significantly contributed to Afghanistan's underdevelopment.

Keywords

Ecomomic Development

Reconstruction

Afghanistan

Foreign Policy

Underdevelopment

Dependency