Afghanistan: Democracy and Presidential Election?
25 - August - 2009 | 0Issue 16/August-September 2009
by Arif Shiri
The recent official birth of democracy in Afghanistan has introduced a few questions regarding the democratic government of Afghanistan and the way in which government has handled the presidential election. Most commentators and scholars has never theorised and analysed in a way to give a broader picture of the contemporary political situation in Afghanistan. Simply, the situation has been viewed from individual’s perspectives and political ideologies were simply ignored. In other words, most scholars has been adopted a historical description position rather a social scientific explanations. However, this article would rather offer a third-way explanation to the current situation in Afghanistan. This explanation based on different approaches of political theories and, also it theorises and analyses the role of actors in contemporary Afghan affairs such as media, newspapers, journalist’s reports and individuals’ speech. Also this article aims to engage with other commentators and scholars on Afghan domestic politics.