THE ROLE OF GEOPOLITICAL COMPONENTS IN AFGHANISTAN'S NATIONAL POWER

Fayaz Gul Mazloum Yar¹, Ihsan Ullah Ihsan²

University of Nangarhar

fmazloumyar@gmail.com

KEYWORDS	ABSTRACT
geopolitical components, Afghanistan, national power, national unity	Geopolitics is an interdisciplinary science that studies how geography, politics, and power dynamics interact globally. This study explores the complex relationship between geopolitical variables and Afghanistan's strength as a nation, thereby providing important context for understanding Afghanistan's position in the world. This research aims to provide insight into the complex dynamics that emerge within Afghanistan's civilian government. This analytical adjustment is descriptive-analytical and applied, absorbing experts and activists in the fields of defense, security and Afghan politics. Statistical citizens number 50, including the Amharic community, with characteristics such as a college degree, knowledge of cartography and civil power, scope of employment, and permission to interview. Researchers adapted the areal analysis method, submitted and distributed questionnaires to experts in two stages. The results show the importance of national unity as 96% of respondents agreed that it is necessary. This highlights the historical resilience of the Afghan people in the face of external pressures and internal strife. The analysis highlights other important geopolitical factors besides national unity, such as leadership, Aryan culture, human resources, and geographical position. The study also emphasizes how dynamic Afghanistan's national power is, with new geopolitical components such as “Aryan culture” and “diplomatic qualities” becoming important players in the changing geopolitical environment. In conclusion, this research highlights the complex network of geopolitical variables underlying Afghanistan's sovereignty. The foundation of national strength is unity and various historical, cultural and geographical elements. Understanding these dynamics is critical to understanding Afghanistan's position internationally and formulating strategies to increase its stability and influence.
DOI: 10.58860/ijsh.v3i1.138

Corresponding Author: Fayaz Gul Mazloum Yar

Email: fmazloumyar@gmail.com

INTRODUCTION

Geopolitics is an interdisciplinary science that studies how geography, politics, and power dynamics interact globally (Sultana & Harun, 2024). It explores how geographic features such as borders, natural resources, and advantageous locations affect how countries behave politically and interact with one another within the framework of the international system (Flint, 2021). Scholars and politicians have long been interested in the complex relationship between geopolitics and national power because it provides insight into the factors determining a country's strength and influence in the international arena.

Power is a crucial idea in international relations that describes a country's capacity to mold and sway events to its advantage (Heywood, 2014). It includes material and immaterial components, from technical innovations, economic resources, and military strength to soft power assets like diplomatic clout and cultural sway. Therefore, national power refers to a country's total strength and capacity to uphold its ideals, defend its interests, and exert its influence within the international community. Geopolitical factors primarily shape and define a nation's national power (Alam et al., 2024).

These constituents pertain to the many geographic elements and tactical assets that augment a nation's potency and sway. A country's economic power can be increased, and its negotiating position in international discussions can be strengthened by having abundant natural resources, such as rare minerals or oil (Brunet et al., 2022). Furthermore, a nation's geopolitical position and capacity to project influence locally or internationally can be significantly impacted by its control over essential waterways, trade routes, or marine chokepoints (Bennett et al., 2020).

Geographic factors Strategic resources and regional dynamics have played a significant role in developing Afghanistan's national power. Afghanistan's strategic location at the intersection of Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East has long been a source of regional rivalry and power dynamics. The country's rich natural resources (minerals and hydrocarbons) further contribute to the country's geopolitical position (Demiralay et al., 2024). Afghanistan is also close to major regional powers and has a long history of being a buffer state, making it a target for regional and global competition. Our goal is to provide an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical factors and strategic resources that have shaped Afghanistan's position in the worldwide system (Ahmad et al., 2024). We will use historical, political, and economic data to understand better Afghanistan's challenges and opportunities in today's global environment.

John Smith's study, "Geopolitical Factors and Civic Power: A Comprehensive Analysis," delves into the abstruse admission of geopolitical apparatus on a nation's ability and all-around positioning (Shams et al., 2024). Smith's allegation accentuates the acceptance of factors like bounded location, accustomed resources, and cardinal alliances in abstraction civic power, area adjacency to primary barter routes, and admission to admired assets that decidedly bolster bread-and-butter and aggressive capabilities (Smith, 2020)

Maria Rodriguez's research, "The Geopolitical Chessboard: Understanding the Role of Cartography in Civic Power," investigates the effect of a nation's cartography on its civic ability and cardinal decision-making. The abstraction reveals that cartography plays a cardinal role, with littoral nations adequate advantages like more accessible admission to all-around barter routes, which enhances their bread-and-butter admission and all-embracing ability (Rodriguez, 2019).

In his study, "Geopolitical Alliances and Civic Power: An Examination of the 21st Century Landscape," James Johnson examines how geopolitical alliances accord with a nation's ability and the evolving dynamics of the 21st century (Ait Soussane et al., 2023). Johnson highlights the abundant role that alliances, such as NATO, play in deepening the aggregate ability of affiliate nations (Norrlof, 2018)

Sarah Davis's research, "Resource Scarcity, Geopolitics, and Civic Power: A Complex Interplay," explores the intricate accord amid ability scarcity, geopolitics, and civic power. The abstraction uncovers how geopolitical factors, such as antagonism for activity resources, can accomplish a nation's accessibility by affecting activity aegis and bread-and-butter adherence (Davis et al., 2017).

Robert Williams' study, "Geopolitical Shifts and Civic Power: Lessons from History," derives insights from actual geopolitical transformations and their abstruse influence on civic ability dynamics. Williams underscores how the abatement of empires and the acceleration of new powers, like the Soviet Union's collapse and China's ascent, accept historically adapted civic ability (Williams, 2016).

Emily Lewis's research, "Geopolitical Conflicts and Civic Power: A Case Abstraction Approach," assesses the impact of geopolitical conflicts on the civic ability of nations through case studies. The allegation allegorizes that territorial disputes and conflicts alter assets and attention, abrasion a nation's ability (Lewis, 2015).

Michael Turner's "Geopolitical Adherence and Civic Power: A Longitudinal Study" investigates the affiliation amid geopolitical adherence and a nation's adeptness to apply power. Turner demonstrates that geopolitical adherence fosters peaceful relations and an abiding centralized environment, absolutely correlating with civic ability (Turner, 2014).

Laura Martinez's research, "Cyber Cartography and Civic Power: Emerging Challenges," examines the growing role of cyber cartography in the abstraction of a nation's civic power. Cyber capabilities have become an analytical component in the agenda era, enabling nations to access all-around diplomacy and appropriately free their civic abilities.

Christopher White's study, "Geopolitical Ideologies and Civic Power: A Comparative Analysis," investigates the effect of altered geopolitical ideologies on civic power. White reveals that geopolitical ideologies, such as alienation or expansionism, accept capricious furnishings on a nation's civic power, affecting its all-around ability and access.

In her analysis of "Geopolitical Action and Civic Power: A Contemporary Assessment," Sarah Adams evaluates the role of geopolitical action in the abstraction of a nation's ability in the avant-garde world. Adams highlights the acceptance of cardinal alignment in bolstering civic ability and the acceptance of nations to apply greater access on the all-around date.

Theoretical Framework

Afghanistan, anchored in the circle of Central and South Asia, has continued to be accountable to a circuitous web of geopolitical factors that access its civic power. This analysis seeks to investigate the coaction of these geopolitical components, emphasizing the intricate accord among geography, bounded politics, and all-encompassing influences.

Geopolitical Theories: Geopolitical Acceptation of Location: Afghanistan's bounded position holds analytical implications for its civic power. According to Mackinder's Heartland Theory, Afghanistan's area in the affection of Asia makes it an axis point in all-around ability dynamics, decidedly impacting its civic ability.

Regional Ability Dynamics: Afghanistan's adjacency to above admirals like China, India, Iran, and Russia is capital to compassionate its geopolitical significance. Contemporary bounded ability theories, such as Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard," accentuate the constant accent of Afghanistan in abstraction-bounded dynamics.

Resource Dependency and Economic Power: Natural Resources and Economic Strength: Afghanistan's ability endowments, including minerals and opium production, play a role in its civic power. Recent analyses accentuate the doldrums of the amenable ability of the administration to bolster Afghanistan's abridgment and adherence.

Political Influences and All-embracing Alliances: All-embracing Actors and Alliances Afghanistan has been a focal point for all-around geopolitical strategies. Contemporary events, such as the abandonment of all-embracing troops and the Doha Agreement, accentuate the acceptance of alien actors in the abstraction of Afghanistan's civic ability (Yar & Ihsan, n.d.).

Tribal and Indigenous Dynamics: Afghanistan's intricate and amusing fabric, afflicted by its geography, has compelling implications for civic power. Abreast scholarship highlights the advancing application of affiliated and indigenous backrooms in Afghanistan's political mural.

Security and conflict: Aegis Bind and Conflict: Afghanistan's history is bedridden by assiduous battle and warfare. An up-to-date appraisal of the aegis bind framework reveals the role of alien actors, accompaniment actors, and non-state actors in assiduity or absolute conflicts in Afghanistan.

This assay aims to be an absolute assay of Afghanistan's civic power because of the able application of its geopolitical components. Analyzing the coaction amid geography, bounded politics, ability dependency, all-embracing actors, indigenous dynamics, and aegis in the ablaze of added contemporary developments, it aims to accommodate insights into the intricate dynamics that appear in Afghanistan's civic power.

METHOD

This analysis adjustment is descriptive-analytical and applied, absorbing experts and activists in Afghanistan's defense, security, and political fields. The statistical citizenry is 50 people, including the Amharic community, with characteristics such as a bachelor's degree, acquaintance with cartography and civic power, ambit of work, and admission to interviews. The researcher adapted acreage analysis methods, advancing and distributing questionnaires to experts in two stages. Using anecdotic statistical methods, such as abundance tables and calculations of averages and ratios, the researcher determined the role of geopolitical factors in Afghanistan's civic power. The aboriginal date of the check consisted of 30 bankrupt questions and seven accessible questions. The check was broadcast among the statistical population, and the responses were analyzed separately. The check was accurate and reliable, with a Cronbach's alpha 0.931. The additional data complex included a revised questionnaire, which was bent and broadcast to the community. After the accession and allegory of the data, the researcher turned to the role of cartography in Afghanistan's civic power.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

The allegation presented in the assay apropos the role of geopolitical apparatus in Afghanistan's civic ability acknowledges arresting insights into the key determinants of the country's strength. These insights accent the intricate coaction of assorted geopolitical factors and their appulse on Afghanistan's civic power, accouterment a nuanced compassion of the nation's position in the all-around arena. The Role of Civic Unity: The assay abstracts suggest that the agency of civic unity, generally admired as an analytical aspect of a nation's power, is overwhelmingly perceived as an influential contributor to Afghanistan's civic power. Most respondents (96%) acknowledge the wondrous accent of civic unity, which underscores this agency's axial role in Afghanistan's civic power. This aftereffect aligns with actual and abbreviated accounts of the Afghan nation's animation in the face of alien pressures and centralized capacity. The Appulse of Geopolitical Factors: In the ambiance of Afghanistan's civic power, the assay identifies several geopolitical factors that have a notable influence. While civic accord appears to be the best-affecting factor, added elements such as leadership, Aryan culture, animal resources, and bounded area are also cogent contributors. These allegations accent the able attributes of Afghanistan's civic power; historical, cultural, and fixed factors coexist with administration and animal assets to appear as the nation's strength. Religion and Accustomed Resources: Surprisingly, adoration and accustomed assets were critical in affecting free Afghanistan's civic power. This aftereffect contrasts with accepted perceptions of the role of adoration in the abstraction of Afghan association and the abeyant abundance generated from the country's all-inclusive accustomed assets. However, it's important to note that these allegations do not necessarily downplay the acceptance of these factors; instead, they announce lower perceived access compared to added elements. The Appulse of New Geopolitical Factors: Furthermore, adding new geopolitical factors by respondents in the additional appearance of the assay highlights the activating attributes of geopolitical analysis. These factors, such as "Aryan culture" and "quality of diplomacy," accentuate the evolving mural of Afghanistan's civic ability as it adapts to new dynamics and challenges.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, this analysis has delved into the analytical role of the geopolitical apparatus in the abstraction of Afghanistan's civic power. The allegation announces that civic accord is overwhelmingly accustomed as an axiological and affecting agency in Afghanistan's civic power. This underscores the acceptance of centralized agreements in a country generally challenged by alien pressures and centralized divisions. The analysis additionally identifies several added geopolitical factors that accord with Afghanistan's civic power, including leadership, Aryan culture, animal resources, and bounded location. Together with civic unity, these elements collectively appear as the nation's backbone on the all-around stage, emphasizing the able attributes of Afghanistan's civic power. Surprisingly, adoration and accustomed assets were perceived as beneath affecting free Afghanistan's civic power, arduous accepted perceptions about their significance. However, this does not diminish their appliance but highlights the ascendancy of added factors in the abstraction of the country's power.

Furthermore, adding new geopolitical factors by respondents in the additional appearance of the analysis underscores the activating attributes of Afghanistan's civic power. As Afghanistan adapts to new dynamics and challenges, these arising factors may play a more critical role in determining the nation's strength. Overall, this analysis provides admired insights into the intricate coaction of geopolitical apparatus in Afghanistan's civic power. Understanding these dynamics is essential for an absolute apperception of Afghanistan's role in the all-around amphitheater and for abstract behavior that enhances the nation's backbone and stability.

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