Defiant Culture - one of the Main Pillar of Twenty-Year Resistance in Afghanistan

Abstract

The current work attempts to explore the role and importance of the culture in power politics and shows how power is legitimized by the culture. In fact, culture and power are very intertwined and the whole structure of the cultural traditions rule and customs are developed by and represents the power division inside the culture and its people. Research claims that understanding the culture from inside give us the opportunity to better understand the power relations inside the society and accordingly is beneficial for policy makers will it be inner politics or the international one. The work is interdisciplinary and consists of politics and cultural studies fields. It uses the theoretical framework-an interesting mix of theories from both fields to explain the relationship and behaviour of the political and cultural variables of the research. Article chose to do to case studies and together with comparative analyses and content analyses find out common and different trends. It avoids discussions how just or fair was the whole operation in Afghan or Ukraine case but it assess how correctly was those operations planned and realized from the point of view of power culture relationship and how cultural understanding or misunderstanding contributes in achieving political goals in such a cases.