The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties : Ideology in Practice

Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781474426664
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Asks how representatives of Political Islam are conducting themselves in the field of international politics Includes a Preface by Olivier Roy The first up-to-date, detailed analysis of how Islamist forces in the Middle East try to redefine the relationships of power within the international system post-2010 Looks at how Islamist ideology has evolved in the face of reality (e.g. opening up to democratic principles or co-operating with non-Muslim states) Analyses the ways in which political Islam's actors put their ideology into practice with regard to foreign policy and IRDoes political Islam have a specific vision of global politics? How has the foreign policy of Islamist forces developed in order to impose their ideas onto the diplomatic agenda of other countries? How do these actors perceive the world, international affairs, and the way Islamic countries should engage with the international system?Eager to break with the dominant grammar of international relations, and instead to fuse Muslim states in a unique religious and political entity, Muslim actors have had to face up to the realities that they had promised to transform. Drawing on a series of case studies, this collective work sheds light on six national trajectories of Islamism: in Morocco (the Party of Justice and Development), Tunisia (Ennhada), Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood), Palestine (Hamas), Lebanon (Hizbullah) and Turkey (AKP). It looks at what has been produced by the representatives of political Islam in each case, and the way these representatives have put their words and their ideological aspirations into action within their foreign policies.

Table of contents

• The Foreign Policy of Islamist Political Parties
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword by Olivier Roy
• 1 The Islamists and International Relations: A Dialectical Relationship?
• 2 The Islamists of Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development
• 3 The Foreign Policy of Tunisia’s Ennahdha: Constancy and Changes
• 4 The Foreign Policy of the Egyptian MuslimBrotherhood
• 5 “Islam and Resistance”: The Uses of Ideology in the Foreign Policy of Hamas
• 6 A Fighting Shiism Faces the World: The Foreign Policy of Hezbollah
• 7 Identity of the State, National Interest, and Foreign Policy: Diplomatic Actions and Practices of Turkey’s AKP since 2002
• Bibliography
• Index