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By John M. Owen IV

ISBN-10: 0691142386

ISBN-13: 9780691142388

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ISBN-13: 9780691142395

Some blame the violence and unrest within the Muslim international on Islam itself, arguing that the faith and its background is inherently bloody. Others blame the us, arguing that American makes an attempt to unfold democracy via strength have destabilized the zone, and that those efforts are in some way radical or distinct. difficult those perspectives, The conflict of principles in global Politics unearths how the Muslim global is within the throes of an ideological fight that extends a ways past the center East, and the way struggles love it were a ordinary function of diplomacy because the sunrise of the trendy eu state.

John Owen examines greater than 2 hundred circumstances of forcible regime promoting over the last 5 centuries, providing the 1st systematic learn of this universal nation perform. He seems at conflicts among Catholicism and Protestantism among 1520 and the 1680s; republicanism and monarchy among 1770 and 1850; and communism, fascism, and liberal democracy from 1917 till the past due Nineteen Eighties. He indicates how regime promoting can keep on with regime unrest within the eventual goal nation or a struggle concerning an outstanding strength, and the way this may impress elites throughout states to polarize in accordance with ideology. Owen lines how conflicts come up and finally fade as one ideology wins want with extra elites in additional international locations, and he demonstrates how the fight among secularism and Islamism in Muslim international locations at the present time displays broader transnational developments in international history.

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