Islamist terrorism and democracy in the Middle East / Katerina Dalacoura.

Author/creator Dalacoura, Katerina
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Descriptionx, 213 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The book's central question and rationale : U.S. democracy promotion in the Middle East after 11 September 2001 ; The book's argument and methodology ; Key terms and concepts -- 1. Terrorism, democracy and Islamist terrorism : Terrorism and democracy ; The causes of Islamist terrorism -- 2. Transnational Islamist terrorism: Al Qaeda : Al Qaeda's evolution as a terrorist actor ; Rootlessness and terrorist violence ; Rootlessness and the absence of terrorism: the case of Hizb ut Tahrir -- 3. Islamist terrorism and national liberation: Hamas and Hizbullah : Hamas : The Muslim Brotherhood and the emergence of Hamas in the First Intifada ; Terrorism and the Oslo Peace Process ; The al Aqsa Intifada and the 2006 legislative elections -- Hizbullah : Hizbullah terrorism in the 1980s ; The trajectory of terrorism and violence in the 1990s and beyond -- 4. Islamist terrorism in domestic conflicts: the armed Islamic group in Algeria and the Gamaa Islamiya in Egypt : The Armed Islamic Group (GIA) : The background of Islamist politics in Algeria ; The rise and fall of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) ; Terrorism and the GIA -- The Gamaa Islamiya : Islamist politics in Egypt and the emergence of the Gamaa Islamiya ; Patterns of terrorism in the Egyptian conflict of the 1990s -- 5. Moderation and Islamist movements in opposition: the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic Action Front, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Tunisian Nahda : The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic Action Front : Islamist politics in Jordan ; Participation as a cause of moderation -- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood : The monarchical and Nasser eras ; The Muslim Brotherhood's ideological evolution under Sadat and Mubarak ; Participation and repression as causes of modernism -- Tunisia's Nahda : Islamist politics in Tunisia ; Moderation despite repression -- 6. Islamist moderation and the experience of government: Turkey's Welfare and Justice and Development parties and the Islamic Republic of Iran : Turkey's welfare and justice and development parties : Islamist politics until the 1980s ; The welfare party ; The Justice and Development Party (JDP) -- The Islamic Republic of Iran : Iranian Islamism under the Shah ; Terrorism and the Islamic Republic ; Democracy, liberalism and political pluralism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-208) and index.
LCCN 2010047275
ISBN9780521683791 (paperback)
ISBN0521683793 (paperback)
ISBN9780521865180 (hardback)
ISBN0521865182 (hardback)

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