Class and the Political-Economic Roots of Contemporary Islamist Anti-Imperialism.

This paper seeks to address the degree to which (and how and why) particular social constituencies have been mobilised by Islamist forms of political resistance within the wider Middle East. In particular in aims to integrate locally-specific developments with broader global processes associated with the ends of Cold War and neoliberal globalization and how such processes have been mediated by local states and wider civil-political society. The paper will focus on role of (and impact on)leftist-nationalist states and political movements in the rise of political Islam, to see if such movements are the consequence of the failure of such movements/states to respond to the changing dynamics of the closing stages of Cold War and globalization. It will also seek to examine the degree to which Islamist political movements of resistance have a particular class dimension in thier membership, strategy and aims. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]