Islam, the Middle East, and the new global hegemony
Simon Murden investigates how Muslim societies in the Middle East are being affected by globalized politics and economics and how they are adapting to it. Murden describes how a Western-designed set of economic and political norms, institutions and regimes has come to be a hegemonic system. His focu...
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Boulder, Colorado
Lynne Rienner Publishers
2002
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| Series: | Middle East in the international system
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : the emergence of the West's global hegemony and its final frontier
- pt. 1. Islam in the global hegemony
- 2. Reconstructing the post-Cold War world : Islam in the cultural discourse of the West
- 3. The Pax Americana in the Middle East
- 4. The impact of the global economy in Muslim countries
- pt. 2. Muslim resistance and adaptation in the liberal international order
- 5. The Islamic revolt and the politics of paralysis
- 6. Islam and the liberal idea
- 7. Islam in the international system : a future of conflict or cooperation?
- App.1. The History of the Liberal Idea
- App.2. The History of the Islamic Faith