| This thesis examines and analyzes the development of democracy in Afghanistan since 9/11, and examines that development through the lens of the Democratic Peace Theory, which stipulates at its core that democracies do not fight each other. I pose two research questions within this thesis: “Since 9/11, has Afghanistan had a democracy?”, followed by “If Afghanistan does have a democracy, how has its status changed?” To answer these questions, I utilize aspects from the Democratic Peace Theory, specialized data from Polity IV, election data and results from Afghanistan’s elections since 2004, and I analyze Afghanistan’s history since 1947, in order to demonstrate how Afghanistan has continued to be an unsolvable problem for the United States. Key Words: Afghanistan Democracy Elections Anocracy Monadic Theory Dyadic Theory |