By Kai Hafez, Mary Ann Kenny, Mary Ann Kenny, Mohammed Arkoun, Udo Steinbach
The anthology is an advent to political cultures within the Islamic international and into kin among the West and Islam. It outlines similarities and transformations within the realizing, belief and communique of simple politico-ideological concerns like modernity, democracy, human rights, violence, the emancipation of ladies, and monetary improvement and social justice. It information its analyses in kingdom stories on family members among the united states and Europe at the one aspect and Algeria, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, principal Asia and Pakistan at the different aspect. The publication, which used to be first released in Germany, used to be deemed to be "a convincing respond to Huntington". quite often German students and students operating in Germany current unique insights right into a advanced topic that even though on the middle of foreign and intercultural family is frequently handled in simplistic methods.
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The Islamic menace, and in particular the “Islamic nuclear bomb,” func tioning as a sword of Damocles, have long since become components of NATO strategy. ” In the final analysis, political relations between Western and Islamic states fluc tuate between relaxed co-operation, ethical slackness and ideologi cal excess. A new policy of détente Samuel P. ” His thesis is not only apodeictic in that it rules out any possibility of understanding between the two cultures, it also includes clear proposals for Western defence strategies against Islam: Hun tington recommends that the West consolidate relations with cultur ally related regions such as Latin America and exercise military control over the “Confucian” (China) and Islamic states.
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