Why Europe Must Engage With Political Islam

Author : Amr Elshobaki,Gema Martín Muñoz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OSU:32435081675126

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Why Europe Must Engage with Political Islam by Amr Elshobaki,Gema Martín Muñoz Pdf

This is the fifth in a series of ten papers published jointly by the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) which aim to address ten critical topics for Euro-Mediterranean relations. The papers have been commissioned with a view to formulating policy options on a set of issues which are central to achieving the objectives set out in the 1995 Barcelona Declaration and the Paris Declaration of 2008, as well as defining new targets for 2020 in the political, economic and social spheres. This fifth paper focuses on the way Europe approaches the issue of Islamic political movements in the Middle East and North Africa. The key message that emerges from the report is that it is time for Europe to engage with political Islam in this region. Both authors of the main chapters in this report-- one from the Arab world and the other from Europe-- eloquently make the argument that there is no prospect of a credible democratic transformation of the Arab world without the full integration of Islamist movements into the political mainstream.

Author : M. Pace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230298156

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Europe, the USA and Political Islam by M. Pace Pdf

A study of the attempts by the US and EU to develop meaningful political relations with Islamist movements in the Middle East and Balkans. The contributors draw on extensive research on Islamist parties and movements and Western policy towards them over the past decade.

Author : Robert Springborg
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 9789290797135

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Political Islam and Europe by Robert Springborg Pdf

Author : Michael Emerson,Richard Youngs
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290797111

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Political Islam and European Foreign Policy by Michael Emerson,Richard Youngs Pdf

The time is ripe for the European Union, its institutions and member states to undertake an explicit review of its current policy of 'benign neglect' towards the broad collection of 'Muslim democrat' parties in the Mediterranean Arab states. The group of experts assembled to produce this new book adduces mounting evidence that this policy may lead to unintended consequences, such as the reinforcement of anti-democratic regimes and radical Islamism. Their arguments favour a broad inclusion of Muslim democrats in EU initiatives aiming at the reform of governance and the development of civil society, without extending to them any singular, exclusive or unsolicited privileges.

Author : Michael Emerson,Kristina Kausch,Richard Youngs,Omayma Abdel-Latif
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290798651

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Islamist Radicalisation by Michael Emerson,Kristina Kausch,Richard Youngs,Omayma Abdel-Latif Pdf

"Issues relating to political Islam continue to present challenges to European foreign policies in the Middle East and North Africa. In this volume, European and regional experts analyse trends driving the radicalisation of political Islam as well as the contrary trend of de-radicalisation observed in some countries where Islamist parties have secured democratic political participation. The question underlying the book is whether the ED should engage more specifically with the 'moderate' Islamist parties, and at least recognise radical Islamist movements that achieve democratic electoral success and legitimacy, such as the Palestinian Hamas. Current EU policies are largely negative on both accounts. The conclusions of the book argue for a change in this stance, with a three-dimensional approach: a) to put pressure on incumbent regimes to abandon the repression of moderate Islamist movements, b) to influence the legal and political frameworks regulating social and political participation in a more open way and c) to engage in dialogue with non-violent opposition forces - both Islamist and non-Islamist. In the absence of such policies, the EU risks contributing to a re-radicalisation of movements that have become disillusioned with the failure of their political moderation to produce results." --Book Jacket.

Author : Samir Amghar,Amel Boubekeur,Michael Emerson
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290797104

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European Islam by Samir Amghar,Amel Boubekeur,Michael Emerson Pdf

This book analyzes the place of the new Muslim minorities in society within the European Union. The authors explore the root causes of rising tensions and conflict between the new immigrant population and native Europeans over issues of Muslim identity, Islamist doctrines, and Islamophobia. They also provide integration models for the various EU countries and discuss the short- and long-range problems caused by socioeconomic discrimination against Muslims. Contributors include Imane Karich (International Crisis Group, Brussels), Isabelle Rigoni (Paris VIII University), Sara Silvestri (Cambridge University and City University, London), Valeria Amiraux (European University Institute, Florence), Chris Allen (University of Birmingham, UK), Tufyal Choudhury (Durham University, UK), and Bernard Godard (Ministry of Interior, Paris).

Author : Thomas Jäger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031461736

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Handbook of Political Islam in Europe by Thomas Jäger Pdf

Author : Walid Phares,Lorenzo Vidino,Amr Hamzawy
Publisher : Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782930632063

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Political Islam in Europe and the Mediterranean by Walid Phares,Lorenzo Vidino,Amr Hamzawy Pdf

PDF available to download for free from: http://martenscentre.eu/publications/political-islam-europe-and-mediterranean-three-contributions Political Islam is becoming increasingly important to European politicians and policymakers. This research paper gathers together three edited papers from the event "The Atlantic Seminar: Understanding Political Islam", organised by the CES and the Political Academy of the Austrian People's Party (Polak) and International Republican Institute in Vienna (IRI). The three authors emphasise the need for a tailored approach with regard to each Islamic political organisation, because political Islam includes elements with varying programmes and agendas recognition of internal differentiation and disagreements within individual Muslim political organisations and recognition that Islamic organisations change and evolve over time.

Author : Bassam Tibi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317816355

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Political Islam, World Politics and Europe by Bassam Tibi Pdf

The new and updated edition of Political Islam, World Politics and Europe focusses on the shift within political Islam, in light of 9/11 and the events of the Arab Spring, from a jihadist struggle, to institutional Islamism. Refuting what has often been referred to by commentators as the ‘moderation,’ of Islamism, the second edition of this book introduces the concept of ‘institutional,’ Islamism, a process which Tibi argues was accelerated in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Both jihadist and institutional Islamism pursue the same goal of an Islamist state, but disagree fundamentally on the strategy for achieving it. Whilst jihadism is committed to the idea of a (violent) Islamic world revolution, institutional Islamism embraces political institutions as a means to an end. Turning to the events of the Arab Spring in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt this book attempts to determine whether an abandonment of violence is enough to underpin a shift to genuine democracy. Analysing the fall of Morsi in particular, Tibi questions what lessons can be learnt from his presidency, and argues that this event will not change the overall trend of development from jihadism to institutional Islamism A timely addition to existing literature, this book will be of interest to students and scholars studying Middle Eastern and European Politics, Political Islam and International Relations.

Author : Emad Eldin Shahin
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789290797159

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Political Islam in Egypt by Emad Eldin Shahin Pdf

Author : Sarah Wolff
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472128884

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Secular Power Europe and Islam by Sarah Wolff Pdf

Secular Power Europe and Islam argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe’s secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, author Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU’s existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. Through three case studies, Wolff encourages the reader to unpack secularism as a bedrock principle of IR and diplomacy. This book argues that the EU’s interest and diplomacy activities in relation to religion, and to Islam specifically, are shaped by the insistence on a European secular identity that should be reconsidered.

Author : Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells
Publisher : Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015054270700

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Muslim Europe Or Euro-Islam by Nezar AlSayyad,Manuel Castells Pdf

Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in a dynamic discussion about the Muslim populations living in Europe and about Europe's role in framing Islam today. Working at the knotty intersection of cultural identity, the politics of nations and nationalisms, and religious persuasions, this is an invaluable anthology of scholarship that reveals the multifaceted natures of both Europe and Islam.

Author : François Burgat
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781526143464

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Understanding Political Islam by François Burgat Pdf

Understanding Political Islam retraces the human and intellectual development that led François Burgat to a very firm conviction: that the roots of the tensions that afflict the Western world’s relationship with the Muslim world are political rather than ideological. In his compelling account of the interactions between personal life-history and professional research trajectories, Burgat examines how the rise of political Islam has been expressed: first in the Arab world, then in its interactions with European and Western societies. An essential continuation of his work on Islamism, Burgat’s unique field research and ‘political trespassing’ marks an overdue challenge to the academic mainstream.

Author : Frédéric Volpi
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849040617

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Political Islam Observed by Frédéric Volpi Pdf

This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines 'observing' contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being 'observed' practising it. Volpi investigates how different disciplinary approaches in the social sciences explain and understand their 'Islamic' subject matter, revealing how political Islam is a phenomenon that each academic discipline analyses using its own dominant paradigms. He offers a multidisciplinary account of political Islam based on the insights provided by postorientalism, international studies, sociology of religion, democratisation studies, multiculturalism studies, security studies, and globalisation studies. His book outlines the areas of convergence and the synergies between these approaches and highlights the gaps and misunderstanding that still exist between parallel narratives on Islamism.

Author : Sarah Wolff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : OCLC:921158928

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United States and European Union Engagement with Islamists in the Middle East and North Africa by Sarah Wolff Pdf

"On August 25, 2015, the Transatlantic Academy published a new paper by Fulbright-Schuman fellow Sarah Wolff entitled 'U.S. and EU Engagement with Islamists in the Middle East and North Africa.' The Arab uprisings have reminded U.S. and EU diplomats that they need to communicate with Islamist actors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Western diplomacy has undergone a modest yet nonetheless significant 'religious turn' as a result, acknowledging the relevance of religion in foreign policy, particularly in this key region. While the United States has had a long history of both promoting religious freedom internationally and accommodating the political influence of domestic faith-based groups, the European Union has only recently started to account for religion in its external relations. This paper investigates the origins, evolution, and future prospects of this new approach within the context of the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular emphasis on engagement with Islamist religious and political actors."--Publisher description.