Ascriptive Quasi-State Entities (AQSE): concept and features

Ascriptive Quasi-State Entities are the great geo-political novelty of the last few decades. This essay conceptualizes the phenomenon through the dynamic sociology approach. Ascription is a form of psychological organization almost disappeared in the western world, but still alive in traditional societies, mostly in Asia, Africa and Middle East, in opposition to subjectivity, ruling our societies. In recent times, Islamic fundamentalist organizations refused the western concept of modern state, built around the principles of subjectivity, developing a new form of political entity, founded on traditional institutions and ascription as dominant form of psychological organization. The foundation of AQSE followed the collapse and fragmentation of western style state entities. The most notorious cases have been the Taliban Emirate of Afghanistan and the Caliphate of ISIS.