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Over the past twenty years, an influential body of conservative scholarship has focused on the alleged conflict between Islam and the West. Following widespread criticism of this scholarship, a number of commentators have revived its core assumptions to claim that the real conflict is between liberal democracy within Muslim societies and the political ideology of Islamism. In this article we trace the evolution of this scholarship, and suggest that recent empirical developments in the Muslim world suggest the potential for post‐Islamist parties to successfully adapt to the demands of democratic competition within Muslim societies. In this context, the emerging conflict is not between Islam and the West, or Islamism and the West, but between two very different discursive practices within the Muslim world that invoke Islam for radically different purposes.A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

This article analyses the concept of political risk, its evolution & conceptualisation, & explores its utility as a means of understanding political events & processes that can threaten order, stability & continuity in International Relations & disrupt the normal practices of inter-state investment, trade & commerce. More particularly, the article organises the disparate literature that surrounds the concept of political risk such that it might be more rigorously applied as a social science method for understanding political events & their effects upon commercial & strategic activities. Adapted from the source document.

The editors introduce this issue of Global Society with a discussion of Risk Theory and its practical utility in the analysis and institutions of International Relations. Adapted from the source document.

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