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T.C. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES A REVIEW OF AFGHAN NATIONALISM IN TWO CENTURIES (19th & 20th) THESIS Ziaulhaq RASHİDİ Department of Political Sciences and International Relations Political Sciences and International Relations Program Thesis Advisor: Assitant Prof. Dr. Gülay UĞUR GÖKSEL January,2019 T.C. ISTANBUL AYDIN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES A REVIEW OF AFGHAN NATIONALISM IN TWO CENTURIES (19th & 20th) THESIS Ziaulhaq RASHİDİ (Y1612.110052) Department of Political Sciences and International Relations Political Sciences and International Relations Program Thesis Advisor: Assitant Prof. Dr. Gülay UĞUR GÖKSEL January,2019 DECLARATION I hereby declare that all information in this thesis document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results, which are not original to this thesis. Ziaulhaq RASHİDİ iii To my parents for their endless love, care, support and motivations, without whom I couldn’t achieve successes in my life. iv FOREWORD Reviewing Afghan Nationalism provided me a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the roots and antiquity of nationalism in general; rise of Afghan nationalism; the position of Afghan nationalism in 20th century and multilateral relations of Afghan nationalism in Afghanistan and Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan. I have witnessed a number of countries faced huge cracks and divisions (both ethnical and geographical) with less than a decade war/instability but with regards to over four decades of wars and instabilities, the united and dividable Afghanistan motivated to me to find out more about the national unity of Afghanistan, in particular the Afghan nationalism despite some minor problems and ethnic cracks existed. Any research linked to Afghan nationalism requires great amount of efforts due to the limited available works from one hand and on the other, my goal is to concentrate on local (Afghan historians and social scientists) perspectives rather than relying just on the works of the international researchers. When it comes to local perspectives, it is hard to research thousands miles away from Afghanistan since very limited academic works and other sources in Afghani/Pashtu language is available online at this point in time, hence I had to travel to Kabul for searching required sources in bookstores and public libraries. This research [Review of Afghan Nationalism in Two Centuries (19th and 20th)] is the outcome of outcome of noble gestures and sincere contributions of many individuals. Taking this opportunity, I would to thank my family more particularly my father for his endless love, support and being my main motivator; university professors and my friends who helped me directly or indirectly throughout this research. Finally, I would like to express my deepest and sincere gratitude to my supervisor Pof. Dr. Gülay Uğur Göksel for her precious guidance, valuable advices and massive support during the course of this research work. January,2019 Ziaulhaq RASHİDİ v TABLE OF CONTENT Page FOREWORD .............................................................................................................. v TABLE OF CONTENT ............................................................................................ vi ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. vii LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................ viii ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................... ix ÖZET .......................................................................................................................... xi 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 1 2. NATIONALISM ..................................................................................................... 7 2.1 What Is Nationalism? ......................................................................................... 9 2.1.1 General overview of nationalism ................................................................ 9 2.1.2 Nationalism and globalization .................................................................. 10 2.1.3 Major drivers of globalization ................................................................... 11 2.1.4 Nationalism in globalized era ................................................................... 12 2.2 Types of Nationalism ....................................................................................... 14 2.2.1 Civic nationalism ...................................................................................... 14 2.2.2 Ethnic nationalism ..................................................................................... 14 2.3 Nationalism And Ethnicity ............................................................................... 15 3. THE TERM AFGHAN AND AFGHANISTAN ................................................ 18 3.1 Afghan .............................................................................................................. 18 3.2 Historical Overview Of Afghanistan ................................................................ 24 3.2.1 Ariana ........................................................................................................ 24 3.2.2 Khorasan ................................................................................................... 26 3.2.3 Afghanistan ............................................................................................... 27 4. NATION BUILDING EFFORTS AND RISE OF AFGHAN NATIONALISM32 4.1 Why Second Half of 19th Century? .................................................................. 37 4.2 The North-South Resettlements ....................................................................... 38 4.2.1 Initiation of resettlements (First Phase) .................................................... 38 4.2.2 The second phase of resettlements ............................................................ 43 4.2.3 Continuation of second phase ................................................................... 44 5. AFGHAN NATIONALISM ................................................................................ 48 5.1 Afghan Nationalism in 20th Century (A new face) .......................................... 50 6. DURAND AGREEMENT AND AFGHAN NATION ...................................... 60 6.1 Durand Agreement ........................................................................................... 60 6.2 Independent Pashtunistan ................................................................................. 66 6.3 Great Afghanistan ............................................................................................ 69 7. CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................... 72 REFERENCES ......................................................................................................... 75 APPENDICES .......................................................................................................... 77 RESUME ................................................................................................................... 80 vi ABBREVIATIONS ANP : Awami National Party (Pakistan) BRICS : Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa EU :Ganization of Islamic Cooperation hansitan European Union FATA : Federally Administered Tribal Areas GoIRA : Government of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan IRA : Islamic Republic of Afghanistan KP : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) MP : Member of Parliament NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization OIC : Organization of Islamic Cooperation PMAP : Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (Pakistan) PTM : Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (Pakistan) UN : United Nations US : United States of America USSR : Union of Soviet Socialist Republics WTO : World Trade Organization ARS : Afghanistan Royal State vii LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 2.1: Major Contrasts between Civil and Ethnic Nationalism ........................ 15 Figure 2.2: Eratosthens Map of the World 280 B.C 1 .............................................. 24 Figure 2.3: Empire of Alexander the Great............................................................... 25 Figure 3.4: Afghanistan Empire, 18th Century .......................................................... 30 Figure 4.1: Resettlement Directions ......................................................................... 40 Figure 5.1: LOGO Siraj al-Akhbar Afghania ........................................................... 52 Figure 5.2: Scan Copy of a Paragraph - Ethics ......................................................... 53 Figure 5.3: Copy of Afghan National ID in 1922 ..................................................... 59 Figure 6.1: Afghan - Indian Frontier ......................................................................... 61 Figure 6.2: Afghan King between Two Empires ...................................................... 63 Figure 6.3: Pashtunistan Resolution/Bannu Resolution ............................................ 67 Figure 6.4: Pashtunistan Map.................................................................................... 68 Figure 6.5: Great Afghanistan Map .........................................................................