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Conceptions of modernity : reform, reformation and radicalism. The minimum consensus of Western modernity ; Secularism and political Islam : ideological dualism ; Liberal reformist Islam : reformation without modernity? ; Conservative reformist Islam : a Lutheran logic ; The unintentional modernity of Islamic fundamentalism ; A comparative look at notions of modernity : the time-lapse of civilizational progress
Political cultures and social movements : the social rationality of cultural change. Western participation and oriental fatalism? ; Re-islamization : from religious stupor to active community ; Islamic fundamentalism as 'radical protestantism' ; The social rationality of cultural change
The discourse of democratization : Grey Zones at the intersection of religion and secularism. The 'Christian democratization' of Islam? ; Muslim world : secular democracy on the margins of global society
Political system change : the radicals' democracy. Stability and state collapse in the twenty-first century : the Middle Eastern Leviathan ; Democracy and a new social contract in the Middle East ; The opposition's capacity for political struggle : the crucial role of the Islamic fundamentalists ; Pacts among opposition groups : fundamentalists as (in-) calculable risk ; The international dimension of democratization ; Euro-Islam or Islam-oriented Ostpolitik : two models of transformation
Authoritarianism : dictatorship between fascism and modernization. 'Islamofacism' : dead end of political rationality? ; Anti-semitism or the risk of ethnicization ; Democratic Polyarchies and the changing face of authoritarianism : dictatorial temptations ; Modern slavery : a common challenge
Imperialism : autocracy, democracy and violence. The West in the Middle East : a panoply of international violence ; Western democracy and international violence : from 'eternal peace' to 'humanitarian imperialism' ; Islamic imperialism : a cultural remnant
Terrorism and non-violent resistance : extremism and pacifism across cultures. A typology of Islamic terrorism : is terrorism typically Islamic? ; Causes of terrorism : Holy War as a blend of madness and rationality ; Non-violent resistance in Islam and how the West ignores it.
Political cultures and social movements : the social rationality of cultural change. Western participation and oriental fatalism? ; Re-islamization : from religious stupor to active community ; Islamic fundamentalism as 'radical protestantism' ; The social rationality of cultural change
The discourse of democratization : Grey Zones at the intersection of religion and secularism. The 'Christian democratization' of Islam? ; Muslim world : secular democracy on the margins of global society
Political system change : the radicals' democracy. Stability and state collapse in the twenty-first century : the Middle Eastern Leviathan ; Democracy and a new social contract in the Middle East ; The opposition's capacity for political struggle : the crucial role of the Islamic fundamentalists ; Pacts among opposition groups : fundamentalists as (in-) calculable risk ; The international dimension of democratization ; Euro-Islam or Islam-oriented Ostpolitik : two models of transformation
Authoritarianism : dictatorship between fascism and modernization. 'Islamofacism' : dead end of political rationality? ; Anti-semitism or the risk of ethnicization ; Democratic Polyarchies and the changing face of authoritarianism : dictatorial temptations ; Modern slavery : a common challenge
Imperialism : autocracy, democracy and violence. The West in the Middle East : a panoply of international violence ; Western democracy and international violence : from 'eternal peace' to 'humanitarian imperialism' ; Islamic imperialism : a cultural remnant
Terrorism and non-violent resistance : extremism and pacifism across cultures. A typology of Islamic terrorism : is terrorism typically Islamic? ; Causes of terrorism : Holy War as a blend of madness and rationality ; Non-violent resistance in Islam and how the West ignores it.