In collaboration of PUEAA UNAM, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, the University of Massachusetts Boston, UNAM Institute of Historical Research and UNAM-Boston, addressed one of the most talked topics in recent days: Afghanistan, its repercussions and rearticulation in a multipolar world. Discussed by the penalists Alicia Girón, Moisés Garduño, Luis Jiménez, moderated and commented by Benjamín Juárez and Estela Roselló.
The discussion was open with a role of the United States and its sudden exit of Afghanistan, addressing key moments such as the transition of the country’s last 3 presidents, its wish of leaving Afghanistan since Obama´s government, however, it wasn’t the best opportunity to do it, avoiding a strategic disaster as it has been at present in the governance of Biden affecting the international prestige and the approval of this.
A global geoeconomics and geopolitical problem is discussed, geographically Afghanistan is in a zone rich in minerals which favours China in its digital economy, recalling that it was territory of Russia, that even the United States itself supported the Taliban to overthrow the communist territory of that time, in this way China and Russia will gain prestige and strength at the expense of the United States. One enters a game about the division of territory between China, Russia and India thus exposing the hegemonic decline of the United States, giving rise to an interpolar world in the sense that there is a constant relationship with other powers, as well as the new form of Taliban governance and its dialogues on feminism to be accepted internationally.
It was also engaged to the feminism dialogue, of 400 thousand returnees 80% represent women and children, however, communities as LGBT and ethnic and religious minorities are affected. Women have had resilient living in the middle of war and suffering, faces the challenge of not leaving their houses. It uses the dialogue about women to justified the presence of other Western powers in the region, it needs to understand Afghan women who have been combatants with an American presence, have had to take risks with clandestine networks giving “sewing classes” where they were actually educated, in order to be able to give birth, the struggle for these rights has not only been thanks to American intervention, the real ignorance of how the power game works within the Taliban vs Western communities blindfolds us. Afghan women demand to be heard and recognized for what they have achieved as they are not the same as they were 20 years ago, they ask the active international community to look at them and not leave them alone.
Leaving many questions in the way, rethinking what´s at stake in Afghanistan, a governance problem and how it´s going to be built on strategic territory, the game of China, Russia and India dividing territory, the prestige of the United States in the world, the strategic role of women in these new power games and where they will be important agents, on the one hand, terrified women and other activists who stayed because it is when they need them most to fight, women who certainly want to be there to be part of the new political game.
This background enriches the constant barrage of bad news and which we invite you to see in order to create a better context of what is lived in the world today, creating and answering different ideas and questions exposed in the discussion, open to continuing discussing and reporting in the best way, we hope for the future of Afghanistan that it deserves, as well as resilience in a future where it will need attention and international commitment.
