Ethnicity became a pivotal element of the Bonn Agreement 2001 aiming to end the civil wars in Afghanistan that have been ongoing since 1979. In the political process, ethnic categories were understood as key building blocks of Afghan society. In essence, the Bonn Agreement sought to outbalance ethnic interest to overcome a decisive root cause of this protracted conflict. This article argues that this approach, however, produced the contrary outcome – that is, the political manifestation of ethnicity in Afghan politics. Hereby the political architects of the Bonn Agreement ignored the fuzziness of the concept of ethnicity in Afghan society as well as the implicit and strategic way of using ethnicity in the political arena.

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打民族牌：论阿富汗政治的民族化

族裔成为旨在结束自 1979 年以来阿富汗内战的 2001 年波恩协议的关键要素。在政治进程中，族裔类别被理解为阿富汗社会的关键组成部分。从本质上讲，波恩协议旨在克服种族利益的平衡，以克服这场旷日持久的冲突的决定性根源。然而，本文认为这种做法产生了相反的结果——即阿富汗政治中种族的政治表现。因此，《波恩协定》的政治设计者忽视了阿富汗社会中种族概念的模糊性，以及在政治舞台上使用种族的隐含和战略方式。