Mr. Samiullah Doorandesh

Volume 2 Issue 2 | Dec 2019

DOI: 10.31841/KJSSH.2021.30

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Abstract

The process of modernization or democratization in Europe was a result of lengthy, troublesome, committed and constant struggle for change continuing since centuries. It was not a product of overnight endeavors. The underdeveloped countries of the East were deeply attracted by the economic development, social liberalization and political emancipation of European states mainly Britain and France. These states were quick to replicate and implement the values, institutions and practices of West believing them to drive them towards speedy modernity, development and equal standing with the states that they were imitating. Hasty and miscalculated replication was always destined to failure and reaction. This paper discusses the process of modernization in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. The case studies of these countries are juxtaposed and draw the conclusion that the blind imitation of Westernization in these ultraconservative and traditional societies without addressing the most sensitized issues of religion and women resulted in the failure of these efforts.