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Confronting Political Islam - Six Lessons from the West's Past (Hardcover)
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Confronting Political Islam - Six Lessons from the West's Past (Hardcover)
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Political Islam has often been compared to ideological movements of
the past such as fascism or Christian theocracy. But are such
analogies valid? How should the Western world today respond to the
challenges of political Islam? Taking an original approach to
answer this question, Confronting Political Islam compares
Islamism's struggle with secularism to other prolonged ideological
clashes in Western history. By examining the past conflicts that
have torn Europe and the Americas--and how they have been supported
by underground networks, fomented radicalism and revolution, and
triggered foreign interventions and international conflicts--John
Owen draws six major lessons to demonstrate that much of what we
think about political Islam is wrong. Owen focuses on the origins
and dynamics of twentieth-century struggles among Communism,
Fascism, and liberal democracy; the late eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century contests between monarchism and republicanism;
and the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars of religion between
Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others. Owen then applies
principles learned from the successes and mistakes of governments
during these conflicts to the contemporary debates embroiling the
Middle East. He concludes that ideological struggles last longer
than most people presume; ideologies are not monolithic; foreign
interventions are the norm; a state may be both rational and
ideological; an ideology wins when states that exemplify it
outperform other states across a range of measures; and the
ideology that wins may be a surprise. Looking at the history of the
Western world itself and the fraught questions over how societies
should be ordered, Confronting Political Islam upends some of the
conventional wisdom about the current upheavals in the Muslim
world.
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