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Owen focuses on the origins and dynamics of twentieth-century struggles among Communism, Fascism, and liberal democracy; the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century contests between monarchism and republicanism; and the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wars of religion between Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, and others. Owen then applies principles learned from the successes and mistakes of governments during these conflicts to the contemporary debates embroiling the Middle East. He concludes that ideological struggles last longer than most people presume; ideologies are not monolithic; foreign interventions are the norm; a state may be both rational and ideological; an ideology wins when states that exemplify it outperform other states across a range of measures; and the ideology that wins may be a surprise. Looking at the history of the Western world itself and the fraught questions over how societies should be ordered, Confronting Political Islam upends some of the conventional wisdom about the current upheavals in the Muslim world.

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• Full title: Confronting Political Islam
• Subtitle: Six Lessons from the West's Past
• Author: Owen, John M., IV
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780691173108
• ISBN: 9780691173108
• ID: 01018519
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 340 g
• Dimensions: 148 × 225 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. September 2016

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