...Christina Lizzi Christina Lizzi is a human-rights and environmental activist and former editorial assistant of Mediterranean Quarterly . Aslam Maleeha : Gender-Based Explosions: The Nexus between Muslim Masculinities, Jihadist Islamism and Terrorism . New York : United...

...Sultan Tepe Sultan Tepe is assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Politics between Market and Islam: The Electoral Puzzles and Changing Prospects of Pro...

... Muslims Are Joining the Islamic State Barbara Franz “I ignite the bomb in the center of the crowd,” announces the German jihad- ist and former rapper Denis Cuspert in his song “Abu al Amlani” (I’m wait- ing for death). Cuspert, alias Deso Dogg, now calls himself Abu Talha al-­ Alman...

... and not a Western analysis of that perspective—is a sine qua non to understanding what happened and how to begin to formulate policies and actions to deal with the new reality. The Islamic State has become the champion of disaffected Sunni Muslim youth building on those perceptions, and the West underestimates...

...P. R. Kumaraswamy P. R. Kumaraswamy is associate professor at the school of International Studies, Jawarlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2007 Islam and Minorities: Need for a Liberal Framework P. R...

... Pacific Center for Security Studies or any other department or agency of the US government. The Post-9/11 American Conundrum: How to Win the War of Ideas in the World of Islam Ehsan Ahrari In America’s global war on terrorism, phrases like “the war of ideas...

... Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-275-99525-6. $39.95. Reviewed by Ted Galen Carpenter. In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States has understandably focused on the radical Islamic terrorist threat emanating from...

... to the poppy are cut off, the insurgency will experience a major organizational blow, unless it morphs into an entirely new animal. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2010 Farhana Schmidt is a graduate student in the diplomacy program of Norwich University, Vermont. From Islamic Warriors to Drug...

...Ioannis Mantzikos This essay examines the Islamic movement's role in shaping Sudan's regional relations and politics, particularly in the greater Horn of Africa. The focus is on the competing foreign policies adopted by the Islamic regime in Khartoum in 1989 and the extent to which the radical...

...Robert J. Pranger Looking back on Yugoslavia's break-up and the subsequent warfare involving Bosnian Muslims, Croats, Albanians (Kosovars), and Serbs, two constants seem fundamental over the past two decades: Slobodan Milosevic and the ascension of Islam to independent statehood. Most academic...

...Robert J. Pranger Kemal H. Karpat: The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 533 pages. ISBN 0-19-513618-7.$50.00. Robert J. Pranger is a private consultant specializing...

...Mohamed A. El-Khawas John L. Esposito: Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam . Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002. 196 pages. ISBN 0-19-515435-5.$25. Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2003 Mohamed A. El-Khawas is professor of history and political science at the University...

... from Judaism: Islamic and Christian Fanaticism Christos C. Evangeliou It is my purpose in this essay to examine the textual roots of the religious fanaticism found in the Christian and Muslim holy books and to draw from them political implications for the post...

... for a Constitutional Republic. Section Two Picking Up Pieces at Home and Abroad Restless Empire: Washington’s Goals and Problems in the Islamic Arc Ted Galen Carpenter The Bush administration has pursued an extraordinarily ambitious agenda...

... in Morocco, and also president of the nonprofit Diversity Institute, which promotes community development and reconciliation inside the United States. Creating a New Era of Islamic-Western Relations by Supporting Community Development...

...Anthony Celso Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2005 Anthony Celso is assistant professor of government and history at Valley Forge Military College, Wayne, Pennsylvania. The Tragedy of Al-Andalus: The Madrid Terror Attacks and the Islamization...

... Islamic Governance in Algeria and Sudan: A Fading Quest for a Model? Giampaolo Calchi Novati and Stefano Bellucci Using a political and historical approach, we seek to review in this essay the development of an Islamic...

...Lukáš Tichý This essay focuses on the global terrorist and militant group the Islamic State (IS), specifically on its use of terrorism targeting the energy sector as a strategic political instrument in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in 2014–16. The essay has two main thrusts. First...

... the worldview of younger generations of Turkish citizens. Islamism Turkish politics nation building educational policy Justice and Development Party AKP © 2018 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2018 ...

...Richard T. Sale Islam is on the march in the Middle East. For the past few years, in every Mideast election, the Islamic parties have won: in the Gaza Strip in 2006 and in Iraq and Tunisia in 2010. In 2011, they won again in Turkey and Morocco, and in Egypt the Islamist parties confirmed...