2014, ISBN: 9780195683783

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Hoover Institution Press, 2011. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Gerecht (a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) speculates on the possible future course of dem… More...

Hoover Institution Press, 2011. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Gerecht (a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies) speculates on the possible future course of democratic reform in the Middle East, offering separate chapters on Iran, the Arab countries, Turkey, and the United States. He assesses Iran's Green movement as promising liberal democratic change and undermining the power of the Islamic clergy; discusses and even promotes the possible role of Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood in spurring democratic change in the Arab autocracies (even as he judges the autocracies to be relatively strong and resistant to change, albeit suffering from a lack of legitimacy); assesses the health of Turkish democracy under the Islamist AKP (Justice and Development Party); and offers advice to the United States to abandon its preference for secular dictatorships due to fear of Islamist participation in government and to engage in debates about democracy in the region. One puzzling omission from the discussion, given Gerecht's praise for George W. Bush's ostensible commitment to Middle Eastern democracy (not to mention Gerecht's own history with such neoconservative projects as the aforementioned Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the Project for a New American Century), is how much of this US "engagement" with democracy he thinks should involve coercive and/or covert actions. (2011 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR), Hoover Institution Press, 2011, 0, Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2014. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Edition in Turkish. 286 p. Pasif devrim: Islami muhalefetin düzenle bütünlesmesi. [= Passive revolution: Absorbing the Islamic challenge to capitalism]. Translated by Ferit Burak Aydar. Third Edition. Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book s stories of transformation to moderate Islam in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience. In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey transitioned through a process of absorption into existing power structures. With rich descriptions of life in the district of Sultanbeyli, this unique work investigates how religious activists organized, how authorities defeated them, and how the emergent pro-state Justice and Development Party incorporated them. As Tugal reveals, the absorption of a radical movement was not simply the foregone conclusion of an inevitable world-historical trend but an outcome of contingent struggles. With a closing comparative look at Egypt and Iran, the book situates the Turkish case in a broad historical context and discusses why Islamic politics have not been similarly integrated into secular capitalism elsewhere., Koç Üniversitesi Yayinlari, 2014, 6, New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007 This volume studies secularism in a cluster of developing countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, all with histories of multiculturalism and religious strife. It examines the roots of the secular principle in the society, politics, law, literature, and media of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. It further investigates the current threats to secularism, and lists the options before national and international institutions to defuse them. The crisis of secularism in contemporary India is an important theme in the volume. The essays present an understanding of the manner in which India developed its peculiar variant of secularism. They analyse the complex social processes by which indended violence against some groups get transformed into aggression against others in times of communal tension. It addition to a historical retrospective on religion and secularism in the subcontinent, there is also a discussion on whether Pakistan can ever become the secular state that Mohammed Ali Jinnah wanted it to be. The collection discusses issues of widespread concern in times dominated by ethno-cultural conflicts and Islamist extremism around the world.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New., Oxford University Press, 2007, 6<

2007, ISBN: 9780195683783

New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007 This volume studies secularism in a cluster of developing countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, all with histories of multiculturalism and … More...

New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2007 This volume studies secularism in a cluster of developing countries in Asia and Eastern Europe, all with histories of multiculturalism and religious strife. It examines the roots of the secular principle in the society, politics, law, literature, and media of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. It further investigates the current threats to secularism, and lists the options before national and international institutions to defuse them. The crisis of secularism in contemporary India is an important theme in the volume. The essays present an understanding of the manner in which India developed its peculiar variant of secularism. They analyse the complex social processes by which indended violence against some groups get transformed into aggression against others in times of communal tension. It addition to a historical retrospective on religion and secularism in the subcontinent, there is also a discussion on whether Pakistan can ever become the secular state that Mohammed Ali Jinnah wanted it to be. The collection discusses issues of widespread concern in times dominated by ethno-cultural conflicts and Islamist extremism around the world.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New., Oxford University Press, 2007, 6<

2007, ISBN: 9780195683783

Editor: Srinivasan, OUP Oxford, Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.54 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, India, Asia, History, S… More...

Editor: Srinivasan, OUP Oxford, Hardcover, 320 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-03-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.54 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, India, Asia, History, Subjects, Islam, Religion & Spirituality, South East Asia, Countries & Regions, Government & Politics, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Political Science & Ideology, OUP Oxford, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 9780195683783

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Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1st edition, 327 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-02-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.2 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Indien… More...

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 1st edition, 327 Seiten, Publiziert: 2007-02-03T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.2 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Indien, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Srinivasan, T. N. Oxford University Press, 2007<