Islam and International Order July 22, 2015 Contents Islam and the Islamic State Contesting the Caliphate
POMEPS STUDIES 15 islam in a changing middle east Islam and International Order July 22, 2015 Contents Islam and the Islamic State Contesting the Caliphate . 6 By Marc Lynch, George Washington University The jihadi threat to international order . 9 By Barak Mendelsohn, Haverford College The Islamic State as an ordinary insurgency . .. 13 By Reyko Huang, Texas A&M University Why the Islamic State won’t become a normal state . 16 By Lawrence Rubin, Georgia Institute of Technology Islam in Political Science How international relations got religion, and got it wrong . 20 By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University What history says about the prospects for Islamic democracy . 23 By John M. Owen, IV, University of Virginia Frames at play: Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism . 25 By Nora Fisher Onar, University of Oxford and Transatlantic Academy Why academics can’t get beyond moderates and radicals . .. 29 By Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York How the two big ideas of the post-Cold War era failed . 34 By Amitav Acharya, American University Why Tunisians (don’t) vote for women . 37 By Lindsay J. Benstead, Portland State University, Amaney Jamal, Princeton University, and Ellen Lust, Yale University Islam, Identity and State Rethinking religion and politics . 42 By Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University Are Muslim countries really unreceptive to religious freedom? . 44 By Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame Why ISIS is not all of political Islam and what it means for democracy . 46 By Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham and Georgetown University How to interpret Iran’s Islamic rhetoric .
[Show full text]