Understanding Post-9/11 Afghanistan: A Critical Insight into Huntington's Civilizational Approach (E-IR Open Access)

9/11 and the subsequent war on terror have misleadingly reinforced the idea of a world politics based on a civilizational clash. While post-9/11 Afghan society appears to be troubled with a conflict between so-called Islamic-terrorist and secular-democratic forces the need for an alternative understanding to pave the way for peace has become paramount.This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to highlight the hidden political and economic factors underlying the so-called civilizational conflict in post-9/11 Afghanistan. It further demonstrates how a post-Islamic humanist discourse has the potential to not only carve the way for peace amidst dangerous entanglement between politics and religion in post-9/11 Afghanistan but also vindicate Islam of its unjustified denigration in the contemporary world.