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ISLAM, DEMOKRATI & USA:
Cordoba Foundation
Abdullah Faliq |
Intro ,
Islamisk politisk kultur, Demokrati, og menneskerettigheder
Daniele. Pris
PRÆCISION I DEN GLOBALE KRIG FOR FORRETNING:
Sherifa zuhur
Islamistiske oppositionspartier og potentialet for EU-engagement
Toby Archer
Heidi Huuhtanen
Political Islam in the Middle East
Are Knudsen
STRATEGIES FOR ENGAGING POLITICAL ISLAM
SHADI HAMID
AMANDA KADLEC
Islamistiske parter : deltagelse uden strøm
Malika Zeghal
ISLAMISKE BEVÆGELSER OG DEMOKRATISK PROCESS I DEN ARABISKE VERDEN: Udforskning af de grå zoner
Nathan J. Brun, Amr Hamzawy,
Marina Ottaway
ISLAMIST RADICALISATION
Issues relating to political Islam continue to present challenges to European foreign policies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As EU policy has sought to come to terms with such challenges during the last decade or so political Islam itself has evolved. Experts point to the growing complexity and variety of trends within political Islam. Some Islamist organisations have strengthened their commitment to democratic norms and engaged fully in peaceable, mainstream national politics. Others remain wedded to violent means. And still others have drifted towards a more quietist form of Islam, disengaged from political activity. Political Islam in the MENA region presents no uniform trend to European policymakers. Analytical debate has grown around the concept of ‘radicalisation’. This in turn has spawned research on the factors driving ‘de-radicalisation’, and conversely, ‘re-radicalisation’. Much of the complexity derives from the widely held view that all three of these phenomena are occurring at the same time. Even the terms themselves are contested. It has often been pointed out that the moderate–radical dichotomy fails fully to capture the nuances of trends within political Islam. Some analysts also complain that talk of ‘radicalism’ is ideologically loaded. At the level of terminology, we understand radicalisation to be associated with extremism, but views differ over the centrality of its religious–fundamentalist versus political content, and over whether the willingness to resort to violence is implied or not.
Such differences are reflected in the views held by the Islamists themselves, as well as in the perceptions of outsiders.
Political Islam and European Foreign Policy
POLITICAL ISLAM AND THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY
MICHAEL EMERSON
RICHARD YOUNGS
Siden 2001 and the international events that ensued the nature of the relationship between the West and political Islam has become a definingissue for foreign policy. In recent years a considerable amount of research and analysis has been undertaken on the issue of political Islam. This has helped to correct some of the simplistic and alarmist assumptions previously held in the West about the nature of Islamist values and intentions. Parallel to this, the European Union (EU) has developed a number of policy initiatives primarily the European Neighbourhood Policy(ENP) that in principle commit to dialogue and deeper engagement all(non-violent) political actors and civil society organisations within Arab countries. Yet many analysts and policy-makers now complain of a certain a trophy in both conceptual debate and policy development. It has been established that political Islam is a changing landscape, deeply affected bya range of circumstances, but debate often seems to have stuck on the simplistic question of ‘are Islamists democratic?’ Many independent analysts have nevertheless advocated engagement with Islamists, but theactual rapprochement between Western governments and Islamist organisations remains limited .
Islamistiske parter , ER DE DEMOKRATER? Betyder det noget ?
Tarek Masoud
Modtransformationer i det tyrkiske samfunds centrum og periferi og retfærdigheds- og udviklingspartiets fremkomst
Ramin Ahmadov
Tyrkiet og EU: En undersøgelse af tyrkiske parlamentsmedlemmers EU-vision
Kudret Bulbul
Even though Turkey’s dream for being a member of European Union (EU) dates back to late 1950s, it can be said that this process has gained its momentum since the governing period of Justice and Development Party, which is shortly called AK party or AKP in Turkish. When compared with earlier periods, the enormous accomplishments during the AK party’s rule are recognized by domestic and European authorities alike. In the parallel of gigantic steps towardsthe European membership, which is now a real possibility for Turkey, there have been increasingdebates about this process. While some European authorities generate policies over Cyprus issueagainst Turkey’s membership, some others mainly lead by German Christian Democrats proposea privileged status rather than full membership. Turkish authorities do not stay silent over thesearguments, and probably first time the Turkish foreign minister can articulate that “should they(the EU) propose anything short of full membership, or any new conditions, we will walk away.And this time it will be for good” (The Economist 2005 30-31) After October third, Even though Mr. Abdullah Gül, who is the foreign minister of the AK party govenrment, persistentlyemphasizes that there is no such a concept so-called “privileged partnership” in the framework document, (Milliyet, 2005) the prime minister of France puts forward that this option is actually one of the possible alternatives.
ivrige demokrater : ISLAMISM OG DEMOKRATI I EGYPTEN, INDONESIEN OG TYRKIET
The fear of Islamists coming to power through elections has long been an obstacle to democratisation in authoritarian states of the Muslim world. Islamists have been, and continue to be, the best organised and most credible opposition movements in many of these countries.
They are also commonly, if not always correctly, assumed to be in the best position to capitalise on any democratic opening of their political systems. På samme tid, the commitment of Islamists to democracy is often questioned. Ja, when it comes to democracy, Islamism’s intellectual heritage and historical record (in terms of the few examples of Islamist-led states, such as Sudan and Iran) have not been reassuring. The apparent strength of Islamist movements, combined with suspicions about Islamism’s democratic compatibility, has been used by authoritarian governments as an argument to defl ect both domestic and international calls for political reform and democratisation.
Domestically, secular liberals have preferred to settle for nominally secular dictatorships over potentially religious ones. Internationally, Western governments have preferred friendly autocrats to democratically elected, but potentially hostile, Islamist-led governments.
The goal of this paper is to re-examine some of the assumptions about the risks of democratisation in authoritarian countries of the Muslim world (and not just in the Middle East) where strong Islamist movements or parties exist.
Succes for Tyrkiets AK-parti må ikke udvande bekymringer over arabiske islamister
Mona Eltahawy
It has been unsurprising that since Abdullah Gul became president of Turkey on 27 August that much misguided analyses has been wasted on how “Islamists” can pass the democracy test. His victory was bound to be described as the “islamist” routing of Turkish politics. And Arab Islamists – in the form of the Muslim Brotherhood, their supporters and defenders – were always going to point to Turkey and tell us that we’ve been wrong all along to worry about the Arab Islamist’ alleged flirtation with democracy. “It worked in Turkey, it can work in the Arab world,” they would try to assure us.Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.Firstly, Gul is not an Islamist. His wife’s headscarf might be the red cloth to the bull of the secular nationalists in Turkey, but neither Gul nor the AK Party which swept parliamentary elections in Turkey in June, can be called Islamists. Faktisk, so little does the AK Party share with the Muslim Brotherhood – aside from the common faith of its members – that it’s absurd to use its success in Turkish politics as a reason to reduce fears over the Mus-lim Brotherhood’s role in Arab politics.The three litmus tests of Islamism will prove my point: women and sex, det “Vest”, and Israel.As a secular Muslim who has vowed never to live in Egypt should Islamists ever take power, I never take lightly any attempt to blend religion with politics. So it has been with a more than skeptical eye that I’ve followed Turkish politics over the past few years.
Gør krav på centret: Politisk islam i overgang
John L.. Esposito
I 1990'erne politisk islam, hvad nogle kalder “Islamisk fundamentalisme,” er fortsat en stor tilstedeværelse i regeringen og i oppositionspolitik fra Nordafrika til Sydøstasien. Politisk islam ved magten og i politik har rejst mange spørgsmål og spørgsmål: “Er islam i modsætning til modernisering?,” “Er islam og demokrati uforenelige?,” “Hvad er implikationerne af en islamisk regering for pluralisme, mindretal og kvinders rettigheder,” “Hvor repræsentative er islamister,” “Er der islamiske moderate?,” “Skulle Vesten frygte en transnational islamisk trussel eller sammenstød mellem civilisationer?” Moderne islamisk genoplivning Landskabet i den muslimske verden i dag afslører fremkomsten af nye islamiske republikker (Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan), udbredelsen af islamiske bevægelser, der fungerer som store politiske og sociale aktører inden for eksisterende systemer, og radikale voldelige ekstremisters konfrontationspolitik._ I modsætning til 1980'erne, hvor politisk islam simpelthen blev sidestillet med revolutionært Iran eller hemmelige grupper med navne som islamisk jihad eller Guds hær, den muslimske verden i 1990'erne er en, hvor islamister har deltaget i valgprocessen og er synlige som premierministre, kabinetsofficerer, talere for nationalforsamlinger, parlamentarikere, og borgmestre i så forskellige lande som Egypten, Sudan, Kalkun, Iran, Libanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesien, og Israel/Palæstina. Ved begyndelsen af det enogtyvende århundrede, politisk islam er fortsat en vigtig kraft for orden og uorden i global politik, en, der deltager i den politiske proces, men også i terrorhandlinger, en udfordring til den muslimske verden og til Vesten. At forstå karakteren af politisk islam i dag, og i særdeleshed de spørgsmål og spørgsmål, der er opstået fra erfaringerne fra den seneste fortid, forbliver kritisk for regeringerne, politiske beslutningstagere, og studerende i international politik.