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This volume investigates the nature and changing roles of the
non-state armed groups in the Middle East with a special focus on
Kurdish, Shia and Islamic State groups. To understand the nature of
transformation in the Middle Eastern geopolitical space, it
provides new empirical and analytical insights into the impact of
three prominent actors, namely ISIS, YPG and Shia Militias. With
its distinctive detailed and multi-faceted analyses, it offers new
findings on the changing contours of sovereignty, geopolitics and
ideology, particularly after the Arab Uprisings. Overall this
volume contributes to the study of violent geopolitics, critical
security studies and international relations particularly by
exploring the ideologies and strategies of the new non-state armed
actors.
In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilisations", Harvard professor
Samuel P. Huntington claimed that conflict between cultural blocs,
or civilizations, will dominate the future. More controversially,
he predicted that future conflicts will occur on the borders
between Western and Islamic civilisations. The statements of Osama
Bin-Laden seem to support his views: 'This battle is not between
al-Qaeda and the US,' he said in October 2001. 'This is a battle of
Muslims against the Global Crusaders. 'This specially commissioned
set of essays sets out critically to examine the border zones of
Islamic civilisation, be they geographical, cultural or virtual.
The contributors explore the local dynamics in these zones to test
whether or not they support or contradict Huntingdon's thesis of an
emerging global confrontation between Islamic civilisation and its
neighbours, be they Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or godless.Among the
borders discussed are those where Muslims are the majority
(Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Ethiopia, Indonesia,
Somalia,Pakistan, Turkey), those with very large Muslim minorities
(Philippines, Nigeria, India) and those where new faultlines have
been created, either through migration (France, the United Kingdom,
the United States, Spain) or technology (the internet). A
commonthread running through the book is whether the rise of
international Salafi jihadism can be traced to countries on the
faultline between Islam and the non-Islamic world. The contributors
conclude by arguing that many of the border regions of Islamic
civilisation are influenced by mechanisms far more complex than
those highlighted in "The Clash of Civilisations", suggesting that
poverty and institutional failure, both often the result of war,
tend to heighten religious awareness and practice, but that the
effects of these phenomena differ from those suggested by
Huntington.
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