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States without Citizens Understanding the Islamic Crisis
John W. Jandora
Book Code: C35590
ISBN: 0-313-35590-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35590-5
128 pages, map
Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
Publication: 6/30/2008
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
  • Endorsement From Dr. John M. Handley,
    Professor of International Relations, Webster University,
    Vice President for Outreach, www.americandiplomacy.org:     This work is more than "a book for the times." An exceptional author, John Jandora provides his readers the insights of both scholarly interest and practical experience with the challenge of modernity in the Islamic world.
Description: Terrorist attacks on America and its allies and persistent violence in the Islamic world point to a crisis in Islamic society, which States without Citizens attributes to an unfulfilled quest for an Islamic renaissance. The Islamic states, whose borders were arbitrarily imposed by Western states, are beset by pervasive socioeconomic problems--authoritarian rule, economic inequities, educational shortcomings, development project failures, sexual frustration--that are being exploited by radical Islamists. Native attempts to modernize Islamic society by adopting Western ways have repeatedly foundered because they have sought to replicate the trappings of state power while neglecting their foundation in civic ethics. The ideals of civic activism and public service that inspired the Western Renaissance are absent in the Islamic world. Islamic religio-moral ethics aim at salvation; Islamic social ethics aim at clan dominance. Western-inspired solutions to the Islamic crisis are inappropriate to Islamic states, inasmuch as they are "states without citizens." To mitigate the violence engendered by the Islamic crisis, culturally authentic institutions must be created that will instill a civic ethics of common cause and public service. The author recommends this approach for policy makers and development managers and deplores the dangerous vacuity of such drumbeat clichés as the "clash of civilizations" that have gained currency in "the war on terrorism."
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. States Without Citizens: Thesis
  • 2. Worlds in Contact, Worlds Apart: Cultures in History
  • 3. Kinsmen, not Individuals: Contrast in Ethics
  • 4. Mujahideen and Hero-Martyrs: Imagery of Active Virtue
  • 5. Modernization and Authenticity: Critique of Endeavors
  • Appendix: The Emergence of Citizenship in Islamdom Nawaf A. Salam
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Further Reading
LC Card Number: 2008008985
LCC Class: JQ1852
Dewey Class: 306
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
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