Confronting Political Islam (eBook)

Six Lessons from the West's Past

John M. Owen (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5215-4 (ISBN)

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John M. Owen IV is professor of politics and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. His books include The Clash of Ideas in World Politics (Princeton) and Liberal Peace, Liberal War.

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How the conflicts of Western history shed light on current upheavals in the Middle EastPolitical Islam has often been compared to ideological movements of the past such as fascism or Christian theocracy. But are such analogies valid? How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam? Taking an original approach to answer this question, Confronting Political Islam compares Islamism's struggle with secularism to other prolonged ideological clashes in Western history. By examining the past conflicts that have torn Europe and the Americas-and how they have been supported by underground networks, fomented radicalism and revolution, and triggered foreign interventions and international conflicts-John Owen draws six major lessons to demonstrate that much of what we think about political Islam is wrong.Owen focuses on the origins and dynamics of twentieth-century struggles among Communism, Fascism, and liberal democracy; the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century contests between monarchism and republicanism; and the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars of religion between Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others. Owen then applies principles learned from the successes and mistakes of governments during these conflicts to the contemporary debates embroiling the Middle East. He concludes that ideological struggles last longer than most people presume; ideologies are not monolithic; foreign interventions are the norm; a state may be both rational and ideological; an ideology wins when states that exemplify it outperform other states across a range of measures; and the ideology that wins may be a surprise.Looking at the history of the Western world itself and the fraught questions over how societies should be ordered, Confronting Political Islam upends some of the conventional wisdom about the current upheavals in the Muslim world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus. 6 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: absolute monarchy • Al-Qaeda • Americas • Anabaptists • Anti-Americanism • Anwar Sadat • Appeasement • arabs • arab spring • authoritarianism • Ba'athism • Caliphate • Calvinism • Catholic Church • Catholics • Christendom • Christianity • Clergy • communism • Communists • communist state • constitutional democracy • Constitutionalism • Constitutionalist (UK) • constitutional monarchism • Constitutional Monarchy • Counter-Reformation • culture war • Democracy • Democratic Capitalism • Dictatorship • Dutch Republic • Dutch Revolt • Early Modern Europe • Election • Europe • Exemplarism • exemplary country • Extremism • Fascism • foreign interventions • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Great Power • HAMAS • hegemony • Holy Roman Empire • House of Habsburg • hybrid regime • ideological contests • Ideological Movements • Ideology • imperialism • Institution • International Relations • Iran • Iranian Revolution • Islam • Islamic Democracy • Islamic Republic • Islamism • Islamist states • Jews • Jihadism • Kemalism • Latin America • Legitimacy (political) • Liberal conservatism • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Lutheranism • maoism • Marxism–Leninism • Middle East • militant • monarchism • Monarchy • Monolith • Muslim Brotherhood • Muslims • Muslim world • Nazi Germany • Nazism • Nobility • Osama bin Laden • Ottoman Empire • Palatinate • Persecution • Political Islam • Political Party • Political Science • Politics • polylith • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Protestantism • protestants • Public Diplomacy • Rationality • regime change • Religion • Republicanism • Ruhollah Khomeini • Saddam Hussein • Saudi Arabia • Saudis • Secularism • Secular state • Sharia • Social Democracy • socialists • Soviet Union • Superiority (short story) • Taliban • terrorism • the islamist • theocracy • The Other Hand • Toleration • Tunisia • Turkey • United States • war • Wealth • Western World
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5215-3 / 1400852153
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5215-4 / 9781400852154