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Spätestens seit der Iranischen Revolution von 1979 und erst recht seit dem 11. September 2001 hält der Islamismus die Welt in Atem. Tilman Seidensticker erklärt, was Muslimbrüder, Salafisten, Wahhabiten und andere Strömungen voneinander unterscheidet, auf welche Vordenker sie sich berufen und mit welchen Mitteln sie operieren, um das Ziel einer islamischen Politik und Gesellschaft zu erreichen. Ein "Muss" für alle, die den islamischen Fundamentalismus und die Gefahr, die von ihm ausgeht, besser verstehen wollen. "Tilman Seidenstickers gut strukturierte Einführung in die Geschichte des Islamismus stellt Personal, Propaganda und das politische Umfeld der brisantesten Ideologie dieser Tage vor... Während das Kapitel über Chomeini, den Gründer der Islamischen Republik Iran, eher pflichtschuldig wirkt, ist das über Hassan al-Turabi, den Paten des islamistischen Sudan, so interessant, dass man merkt, was ein Buch in dieser Kürze leisten kann: großes Interesse zu wecken, mehr über die Hintergründe dieser gerade mal gut hundert Jahre alten politischen Idee zu erfahren, und wie sich islamistische Staats- und Gesellschaftsvorstellungen zeitweise auch mit sozialistischen Elementen mischten, wie das Selbstmordattentat von der libanesischen Hisbollah über die Palästinenser sich in der ganzen Welt verselbstständigte, wie das Konzept des gewalttätigen Dschihad von einer bis ins 20. Jahrhundert innerhalb des Islams relativ unbedeutenden und nicht eindeutigen Kategorie zur heute teilweise als Verpflichtung für alle Muslime geltenden Maxime entwickelt hat und wie sehr der islamistische Erfolg von der Unterstützung staatlicher Akteure abhängt" (taz)

They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, lonely lives in self-imposed exile. But they never broke. Some will say the unflinching attitude of these dissidents against what they perceived as coercive authority has been an exercise in futility. Yet other say the course of Singapore's history might have been altered if their will had prevailed. Their stories need to be told. The first of it's kind, this book will inform and educate. Rather than to glorify their tough stance, these memoirs are a record of human.

"This book provides a rhetorical analysis of contemporary politics and political communication in the state of Maryland. Rather than focusing on election politics, the authors examine state and local political communication more comprehensively, following shifting trends in political communication research"--

The 2004 General Social Survey (GSS) reported significant increases in social isolation and significant decreases in ego network size relative to previous periods. These results have been repeatedly challenged. Critics have argued that malfeasant interviewers, coding errors, or training effects lie behind these results. While each critique has some merit, none precisely identify the cause of decreased ego network size. In this article, we show that it matters that the 2004 GSS—unlike other GSS surveys—was fielded during a highly polarized election period. We find that the difference in network size between nonpartisan and partisan voters in the 2004 GSS is larger than in all other GSS surveys. We further discover that core discussion network size decreases precipitously in the period immediately around the first (2004) presidential debate, suggesting that the debate frames "important matters" as political matters. This political priming effect is stronger where geographic polarization is weaker and among those who are politically interested and talk about politics more often. Combined, these findings identify the specific mechanism for the reported decline in network size, indicate that inferences about increased social isolation in America arising from the 2004 GSS are unwarranted, and suggest the emergence of increased political isolation.

This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We establish significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness, and the locus of control). To understand the influence of the GDR's political regime on personality, we test an important channel by exploiting regional variation in the number of unofficial state-security collaborators across East German counties. Our results indicate that local surveillance intensity is an important determinant of the personality of former GDR citizens indeed. The observed significant differences in personality imply that former citizens of the GDR have economic prospects very different from former FRG citizens and help to understand behavioral differences established in the prior literature.

"Political Portraits of Near and Middle East Personalities".