Dr. Ashour explains de-radicalisation and how Western powers approach the problem, and he talks about Islamism in Egypt’s military government.
A post-Islamic humanist discourse has the potential to carve the way for peace in post-9/11 Afghanistan and vindicate Islam of its denigration in the contemporary world.
Terrorist groups are products of their time and, just everyday citizens, live in a globalised world. They are both shaped by globalisation and contribute to it by their actions.
IR often ignores the political forces that shape which discourse prevails. Discourse and emotional investments in “we-ness” shape foreign policy from BREXIT to the GWOT.
Regionalization, internationalization and context have blinded us to the impact of larger social movements in contemporary politics.
Academics should focus more on the processes by which power is exercised through organised persuasive communication and manipulative propaganda.
It is essential to interrogate how representations of the homegrown threat in security practice may instead be influencing insecurity.
The unforeseeable future implicates the present but also the manner in which decisions in the present operate at the intersection of meaning in past and future.
ISIS is not unique when it comes to the significance of temporality as issues pertaining to the past have been a constant factor in Islamic thought.
Loretta Napoleoni discusses the finances of terror networks, the challenge of countering ISIS, and the attraction of China’s economic model for developing countries.
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