JEOPOLİTİK TEORİLER VE AFGANİSTAN

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 11, 394 - 420, 12.09.2017

Kubilayhan Erman

Abstract

Coğrafi konum ve şartların insan toplulukları, devletler ve onların politikalarına etkileri eski çağlardan beri ilgi çekici bir inceleme alanı olagelmiştir. Rudolf Kjellen tarafından jeopolitik teriminin ilk kez kullanılmasının ardından bu çatı altında geliştirilen klasik ve güncel yaklaşımlar ülkelerin tanımlanması için bir tür çerçeve sunarken aynı zamanda devletlerin dış politikalarının şekillendirilmesine etki etmişlerdir. Bu bağlamda bazı ülkeler jeopolitik olarak önemli ülkeler olarak nitelenmiş ve küresel aktörlerin dış politika hedeflerini gerçekleştirmeleri ile ilişkili istikametlerden olmuşlardır. Afganistanda jeopolitik değeri yüksek ülkelerden biri sayılmaktadır. Bunun en uygun göstergesi Afganistan’ın neredeyse iki asırdır büyük güç politikalarının odağında yer etmiş bir alan olmasıdır. İngiltere ve Rusya “Büyük Oyun” sürecinde Afganistan’a yönelik özel politikalar benimsemiş, Sovyetler Birliği ve Amerika Birleşik Devletleri ise Soğuk Savaş döneminde benzer yöntemler izlemişlerdir. Soğuk Savaş’ın sonlarına doğru Sovyetler Birliği Afganistan’a askerî müdahalede bulunmuş, ABD’nin 2001 yılındaki askerî müdahalesi ise bu ülke tarihinin diğer bir dönüm noktası olmuştur. Afganistan günümüzde de uluslararası politikada büyük güçler için bir çekim merkezi olmaya devam etmektedir. Böylesi bir ön kabulden yola çıkılarak yapılan bu çalışmada Afganistan jeopolitik teori ve yaklaşımlarda inceleme konusu olarak ele alınmıştır. Afganistan’ın klasik ve güncel jeopolitik teoriler ile ilgisi incelenmiş ve böylece jeopolitik veriler ışığında bu ülkenin yeni bir resminin çizilmesi amaçlanmıştır.

Keywords

Afganistan, Jeopolitik, Rusya, ABD, Çin

GEOPOLITICAL THEORIES AND AFGHANISTAN

Abstract

The influence of geographical location and geographical circumstances on human groups, nation states and their policies has been an intriguing area of research since time immemorial. Whereafter Rudolf Kjellen for the first time used the term “geopolitics”, classical and contemporary approaches have been improved in due course under this umbrella. Whereas these geopolitical approaches provide a kind of framework for portraying countries within, they in a way had impacts on shaping the foreign policies of the state actors as well. In this respect, some countries around the globe have been depicted as “geopolitically important countries” and they have been turned into very destinations of global actors in realizing their foreign policy objectives. Afghanistan could be considered one of these countries of high geopolitical value. Being a theatre in the focus of great power politics for almost two ages could be the most proper indicator within this context. Britain and Russia had adopted special policies for Afghanistan during the “Great Game” period. The Soviet Union and the USA had followed similar methodology of politics during the Cold War years. Towards the end of the Cold War Afghanistan was intervened militarily by the Soviet Union and the American military intervention in 2001 constitutes another turning point for the history of this country. Afghanistan, continues to be the center of attention for great powers in international politics at the present time. In this paper, starting out with such a premise, the position of Afghanistan was handled according to geopolitical theories and approaches as well. Afghanistan’s relationship between the classical and contemporary geopolitical theories were studied and thereby, in the light of geopolitical data, in this paper is aimed at drawing a new picture of the country.

Keywords

Afghanistan, Geopolitics, The Russian Federation, The USA, China

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