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Abstract Religion has been used by many scholars as an analytical category and an independent variable to account for the variances in governance and political violence. Very often, religion is [...]

ABSTRACT This work touches upon Martin Amis's diagnosis of the Western world and its cultural foundations which seem to have been threatened, as maintained by the author, by a specific [...]

ABSTRACT Political risk analysis has historically used the nation-state as the principal unit of analysis. However, in the era of globalisation and regionalism, it is questioned whether the analysis of [...]

ABSTRACT This article traces four contested identity claims that carry gender meanings into politics and express the gendered tensions awakened along specific dimensions of institutional change across the past twenty [...]

Abstract Soon after his coup in October 1999, General Pervez Musharraf reassured the Pakistani people that his was not an obscurantist religious agenda. Instead, he referred to the Ata Turk [...]

Abstract The very recent phenomenon called Islamic feminism receives quite a lot of attention from academia and media alike. Although it is basically a discourse whose strategy and praxis is [...]

A British specialist on the Russo-Chechen wars and international terrorism examines Russia's role in the Global War on Terror and, in particular, its long-term campaign against both separatists and Islamic extremists in Chechnya and elsewhere in the North Caucasus. The author advances the argument that Russia's Eurasian (as opposed to European) mode of governance, equating self-determination with separatism and cultural/religious differences with extremism, has generated societal pressures conducive to heightened political violence and terrorism. The implications of such pressures for the future incidence of terrorism in Russia are explored. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H770, O180, P300.2 figures, 52 references. Key words: Russia, North Caucasus, GWOT, Chechnya, terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, Beslan, Nord-Ost, Basayev, Kadyrov, Maskhadov, Putin, Sechin, Chechenization, Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The following is an edited transcript of the fiftieth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was hem on September 14, [...]

The growing convergence between the forces of Islamist militancy and the 'anti-imperialist' left in the world is discussed, while tracking the struggle or jihad of the Islamists against the socialists through the 20th century. The fact that the radical left and the Islamist parties are totally opposed on women's rights, secularism and free speech, and also that the Islamist program does not include internationalism, should serve to separate the left from the jihad of the Islamists.

I. I watch the bodies in trance in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's ethnographic film Trance and Dance in Bali projected on a screen in a dormitory at Ohio University [...]

Abstract This essay discusses the impact of the women's branches in political parties on the role of women in Turkish politics, specifically in the secular Republican People's Party (Cumhuriyet Halk [...]

WHEN SATIRICAL depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper sparked a worldwide wave of Muslim violence early this year, observers naturally focused on the wanton destruction of Western […]

The Prophet Muhammad--"peace be upon him" as the BBC has sycophantically taken to adding when the name is mentioned in its broadcasts--with a cartoon bomb in his turban? Well, it's […]

The West and moderate Muslims have something in common. Both need to repudiate rogue Islamists who portray America as the anti-Islam crusader and Islam as an ideology of hate and violence.

The Islamic revolution of 1979 was the result of a grand coalition of diverse forces united against the ancient regime. (1) Although the religious dimension eventually became supreme, the revolutionary [...]

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 10, 2003, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Woltbwitz hailed a recent proclamation by Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf, Iraq, as [...]

Democratization is rapidly becoming the U.S. policy of choice to meet the challenge of anti-Americanism and the radicalization of Muslims, especially in the Middle East. Both the government and experts [...]

Within the discipline of sociology and the field of international relations is found a longstanding proposition that regimes in trouble at home create enemies abroad. The idea is that external [...]

The Fundamentalist conservatizers in the Islamic world who support or passively sympathize with those who are attacking us perceive themselves as under a grave threat. To assess the accuracy of [...]

Journalist Christopher Hitchens discusses the merits of individualism and contrasts it to the perils of fascism, such as that represented by the Islamic faction that perpetrated the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.

The politics of Arab countries is influenced by the internal battles between Islamic fundamentalists and those who advocate secular nationalism. Countries like Saudi Arabia must resolve this internal conflict before there will be peace.

The massacre of 58 tourists and 4 Egyptians by young Islamic fundamentalists at the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, near Luxor, Egypt was a frightening act of terrorism that led to the destruction of Islamic fundamentalism in Egypt. The Egyptian government reacted by seeking out cells of Islamic fundamentalists and decimating the movement.

This article discusses the values and beliefs of fundamentalist Filipino Muslims. The author, providing a personal account of his experiences with Muslims in Manila, maintains fundamentalist Muslims do not separate government and religion and believe that the Koran will always prevail over conflict.