| Description |
xvi, 186 pages ; 24 cm |
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Praeger Security International
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Islamist challenge -- Ch. 2. Iran : the Islamist state and the reformist agenda -- Ch. 3. Islamism in Algeria : a history of hope and agony -- Ch. 4. Egypt : the struggle for a nation's soul -- Ch. 5. Islamism in the former Yugoslavia -- Ch. 6. From the red star to the green crescent? Islamism in the former Soviet Union -- Ch. 7. Some thoughts on Islamist failures in Sudan and Afghanistan |
| Summary |
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, in the United States renewed fears of an Islamist wave destabilizing the countries of the Muslim world. Yet the alarm raised over a previous wave of Islamism in the early 1990s, which threatened to overwhelm Egypt and Algeria and spill into the Balkans and Central Asia, proved to be unfounded. Takeyh and Gvosdev assert that while Islamism has been successful as an oppositional ideology of wrath, it has failed to provide Islamic societies with any feasible alternative to undertaking fundamental political and economic reforms. By detailing the defeat of Islamist movements in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Central Asia over the last decade, this book encourages us not to overestimate the Islamist threat in the current climate and the years to come. -- Description from http://www.amazon.com (May 3, 2012) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-182) and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically as a subscribed service via World Wide Web (viewed 5Jul.2007) |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Islamic countries.
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Islam and politics -- Islamic countries.
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Islamic fundamentalism -- Islamic countries.
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Islam -- 21st century.
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| SUBJECT |
Islamic countries -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008124180
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| Author |
Gvosdev, Nikolas K., 1969-
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MyiLibrary.
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| LC no. |
2003062253 |
| ISBN |
0275976289 alkaline paper |
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0275976297 paperback alkaline paper |
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