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Islam, Islamists , and the Electoral Principle in the Middle East

James Piscatori
Those who argue that Islam and democracy are antithetical build their analysis on the supposed uniqueness of Muslim societies – they are not like other societies or, perhaps more to the point, not like Western societies – and on what Leonard Binder has called “the cluster of absences.” In this view, the absence of [...]

The Internationalization of the State as the Reconstitution of Hegemony

Ulrich Brand
University of Vienna

Abstract
This article focuses on one aspect of the reconstitution of hegemony—in a Gramscian sense—since the 1970s, i.e. the internationalization of the state. It is argued that the Neo-Gramscian approach to International Political Economy has severe state-theoretical shortcomings. Therefore, insights of historical-materialist state theory are sketched out,
especially Nicos Poulantzas´ state theory, in order [...]

Islamist Parties and Democracy: going back to the origins

Husain Haqqani & Hillel Fradkin
Journal of Democracy

How should we understand the emergence and the nature of Islamist parties? Can they reasonably be expected not just to participate in democratic politics but even to respect the norms of liberal democracy? These questions lie at the heart of the issues that we have been asked to address.
In [...]

TOWARD’S A SECOND PARTITION: RE-THINKING FORTY YEARS OF ISRAELI RULE

Rema Hammami with Salim Tamari
The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (MIT-EJMES)
In 1967 the West Bank and Gaza were re-united by Israeli military rule.
Two separate economies, legal systems and the varied ability for political expression that had evolved over 19 years, between 1948 and 1967, were now subsumed under
a unitary set of [...]