Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Zahed Ghaffari Hashjin ¹
• mohsen karimi shiroodi ²

¹ Professor, Political Science, Shahed University, tehran, Iran

² PhD student of political studies of the Islamic Revolution at Shahid University

Abstract

The developments of the last two decades in Afghanistan, from the American attack in 2001 and the fall of the Taliban to the Taliban's re-domination of Afghanistan in 2021, brought a new experience to the Afghan society. After the Taliban regained control, most of the analyzes in explaining these developments consider it to be due to the power vacuum caused by the hasty withdrawal of the United States; However, this matter was a matter of acceleration. The current research aims to investigate the underlying causes of the re-domination of the Taliban in Afghanistan. This research used Dekamjian's periodic theory to examine the developments of the last two decades in Afghanistan. The research question is, what are the reasons for the re-domination of the Taliban in Afghanistan based on Dekamjian's periodic theory? The research method is descriptive-explanatory and library and document collection method. The findings of the research show that the social crises caused by the crisis environment, including identity crisis, legitimacy crisis, mismanagement by the rulers and pressure and repression, class conflict, military weakness and cultural crisis in Afghanistan have led to the emergence and re-dominance of the Taliban in Afghanistan as a fundamentalist response.

Keywords

• Afghanistan
• crisis
• ethnicism
• Islamic movements
• periodic theory of Dekamjian.Taliban

Main Subjects

• Developments in the Islamic world