Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Building Moderate Muslim Networks PDF full book. Access full book title Building Moderate Muslim Networks by Angel Rabasa. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Angel Rabasa Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833041223 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
Radical Islamists spread their message using extensive networks spanning the Muslim world, but moderates have not created similar networks. This book evaluates US programs of engagement with the Muslim world, and develops a road map to foster the construction of moderate Muslim networks.
Author: Angel Rabasa Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833041223 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
Radical Islamists spread their message using extensive networks spanning the Muslim world, but moderates have not created similar networks. This book evaluates US programs of engagement with the Muslim world, and develops a road map to foster the construction of moderate Muslim networks.
Author: Angel Rabasa Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 083304267X Category : Study Aids Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
Radical and dogmatic interpretations of Islam have gained ground in recent years in many Muslim societies via extensive Islamist networks spanning the Muslim world and the Muslim diaspora communities of North America and Europe. Although a majority throughout the Muslim world, moderates have not developed similar networks to amplify their message and to provide protection from violence and intimidation. With considerable experience fostering networks of people committed to free and democratic ideas during the Cold War, the United States has a critical role to play in leveling the playing field for Muslim moderates. The authors derive lessons from the U.S. and allied Cold War network-building experience, determine their applicability to the current situation in the Muslim world, assess the effectiveness of U.S. government programs of engagement with the Muslim world, and develop a ?road map? to foster the construction of moderate Muslim networks.
Author: Khalid Mustafa Medani Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009257714 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 427
Book Description
Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is central to grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa. In this book, Khalid Mustafa Medani explains why youth are attracted to militant organizations, examining the specific role economic globalization plays in determining how and why militant activists emerge. Based on extensive fieldwork, Medani offers an in-depth analysis of the impact of globalization, neoliberal reforms and informal economic networks on the rise and evolution of moderate and militant Islamist movements. In an original contribution to the study of Islamist and ethnic politics, he shows the importance of understanding when and under what conditions religious rather than other forms of identity become politically salient. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author: Cheryl Benard Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833036203 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 89
Book Description
In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.
Author: Richard L. Benkin Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498537421 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
Radical Islam is a major affliction of the contemporary world. Each year, radical Islamists carry out terrorist attacks that result in a massive death toll, almost all involving noncombatants and innocents. Estimates of how many Muslims could be considered followers of radical Islam vary widely, and there are few guides to help determine moderates versus radicals. Observers often sit at the extremes, either seeing all Muslims as open or closeted jihadis or recoiling from any attempt to link Islam with international terror. Both positions are overly simplistic, and the lack of rational principles to absolve the innocent and identify the accomplices of terror has led to governments and individuals mistakenly accepting jihadis as moderate. What is Moderate Islam? brings together an array of scholars—Muslims and non-Muslims—to provide this missing insight. This wide-ranging collection examines the relationship among Islam, civil society, and the state. The contributors—including both Muslims and non-Muslims—investigate how radical Islamists can be distinguished from moderate Muslims, analyze the potential for moderate Islamic governance, and challenge monolithic conceptions of Islam.
Author: Angel Rabasa Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833037552 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 566
Book Description
Momentous events since September 11, 2001-Operation Enduring Freedom, the global war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq-have dramatically altered the political environment of the Muslim world. Many of the forces influencing this environment, however, are the products of trends that have been at work for many decades. This book examines the major dynamics that drive changes in the religio-political landscape of the Muslim world-a vast and diverse region that stretches from Western Africa through the Middle East to the Southern Philippines and includes Muslim communities and diasporas throughout the world-and draws the implications of these trends for global security and U.S. and Western interests. It presents a typology of ideological tendencies in the different regions of the Muslim world and identifies the factors that produce religious extremism and violence. It assesses key cleavages along sectarian, ethnic, regional, and national lines and examines how those cleavages generate challenges and opportunities for the United States. Finally, the authors identify possible strategies and political and military options for the United States to pursue in response to changing conditions in this critical and volatile part of the world.
Author: Angel Rabasa Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 9780833050908 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced Islamist extremism have been implemented in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. This monograph describes and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these programs and proposes steps that can be taken to promote and accelerate deradicalization processes.
Author: Shadi Hamid Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190649208 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 401
Book Description
Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.
Author: Steven Emerson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743477502 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Leading the second wave of post 9/11 terrorist books, American Jihad reveals that America is rampant with Islamic terrorist networks and sleeper cells and Emerson, the expert on them, explains just how close they are to each of us.
Author: Stephen Vertigans Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134126395 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 220
Book Description
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.
Author: Angel Rabasa
Author: Angel Rabasa
Author: Angel Rabasa
Author: Khalid Mustafa Medani
Author: Cheryl Benard
Author: Richard L. Benkin
Author: Angel Rabasa
Author: Angel Rabasa
Author: Shadi Hamid
Author: Steven Emerson
Author: Stephen Vertigans