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Based on an impressionistic analysis, this article assigns centrality in the Arab world to Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia in the east and to Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco in the west. It suggests reasons for the centrality of the respective countries and discusses ways in which centrality might be more rigorously defined and analyzed. (DÜI-Hns)

HUSEIN AMIN PUBLISHED THIS PLAY ON THE OCCASION OF THE 1987 ATTEMPT BY GUNMEN OF A MILITANT ISLAMIC ORGANIZATION TO ASSASSINATE IN CAIRO THE GOVERNMENT MINISTER HASAN ABU BASHA. HUSEIN AMIN'S WRITING ON ISLAMIC TOPICS NOT ONLY SHOWS HIS MASTERY OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE BUT IS ALSO MARKED BY AN IMPRESSIVE USE OF ISLAMIC SOURCES, AND AN EXTRAORDINARILY ERUDITE DISCUSSION OF ISLAMIC LAW. HIS CRITIQUE OF THE MORE RECENT MILITANT ISLAMIC ORGANIZATIONS IS VERY MUCH IN ISLAMIC TERMS, BUT CHARACTERIZED BY AN OPEN CRITICAL APPROACH AND A STRICT RESPECT FOR THE TRUTH. HIS WORK, IN GENERAL, IS REFRESHING FOR ITS INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY, AND ITS INVITATION OF OPEN, TOLERANT DEBATE.

Intro -- Introduction -- 1. Stepping Over Boundaries: Materials, Methodology and Theory -- Introduction -- 1.1 Against Wrongful Restrictions: On the Advantages of Interdisciplinarity -- 1.2 Reconstituting Culture: On the Significance of Social Movements -- 1.3 Life Is the Method: On the Sisterhood of Biography and Society -- 1.4 Popular Is Not Enough: On Popular Culture and Politics -- 1.5 A Critical View of a Critical Theorist: How a Bad Frankfurt Pupil Can Still Be Politically Active -- 1.5.1 Music for More Than Music's Sake: On the Credibility of Politically Engaged Artists -- 1.5.2 Words Do Not Change Society: Theory Versus Practice -- 1.5.2.1 On Fictitious Freedom -- 1.5.2.2 On the Credibility of Hazy Categories -- 1.5.2.3 On the Passiveness of Theories -- 2. "The Kingdom of Childhood"8: Major Moments of the 1950s -- Introduction -- 2.1 Religion Without Violence: Joan Baez and the Quakers -- 2.2 Becoming Someone Who Was Alright: On Singing Against Isolation -- 2.3 The Birth of a Passion: Iraq, 1951 -- 2.4 Preparing for the March on Washington: Joan Baez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 2.5 Another Teacher of Pacifism: Jewish Scholar Ira Sandperl -- 3. On Refusal Without Violence: Joan Baez and Henry David Thoreau -- 4. High School Activist and Folk Music Revivalist -- Introduction -- 4.1 Conservative Nostalgia About the 1950s -- 4.2 Pedagogy of Paranoia: Activist for the First Time -- 4.3 The Soundtrack of the American Counterculture: Joan Baez and the Folk Music Revival -- 5. Postwar Fractures in Society: Joan Baez in the 1960s -- Introduction -- 5.1 Doubted Demarcations: American Society and Change in the 1960s -- 5.2 Going Further than Allowed: Joan Baez and the Civil Rights Movement -- 5.3 When Students More than Studied: Joan Baez and the Free Speech Movement -- 5.4 Playing Domino: Joan Baez Against the Vietnam War.

"The post-World War II emergence of a full-blown state of perpetual war is arguably the most important feature of contemporary American politics. This book examines the 'warfare state' in terms of a broad ensemble of structures, policies, and ideologies: permanent war economy, national security-state, global expansion of military bases, merger of state, corporate, and military power, an imperial presidency, the nuclear establishment, and superpower ambitions. Carl Boggs makes the argument that the 'Good War' led to an authoritarian system that has expanded throughout the post-war decades, undermining liberal-democratic institutions and values in the process. He goes on to suggest that current American electoral politics show no sign of rolling back the warfare state and, in fact, may push it to a new threshold bordering on American fascism"--Publisher description

Examines how the Allies came to terms with how a 'civilised' nation like Germany could perpetrate the crimes of WWII and sought to bring them back to the Western fold. Priemel shows that while many German institutions, which were ostensibly similar to their Allied counterparts, had been corrupted even before Hitler's rise to power

2. La tolérance interethnique / Abou Anzoua ; Adélai͏̈de Kaurai͏̈. - 2009. - 32 S. : Lit. S. 31

This is a major survey of how towns were governed in late Stuart and early Hanoverian England. A new kind of politics emerged out of England's Civil War: partisan politics. This happened first in the corporations governing the towns, and not at Parliament as is usually argued. Based on an examination of the records of scores of corporations, this book explains how war unleashed a cycle of purge and counter-purge which continued for decades. It also explains how a society that feared a system of politics based on division found the means to absorb it peacefully. As conflict sharpened in communities everywhere, local competitors turned to the court of King's Bench to resolve their differences. In doing so, they prompted the court to develop a new body of law that protected local governments from the divisive impulses within them

In the decades around 1900 the northern territories between Sweden-Norway and Finland-Russia were created and enforced as significant borderlands. In the article I situate the making of these borderlands in what was known as "the Defence Question." Taking my point of departure in this heated political debate, I discuss the various cultural meanings that were ascribed to the Swedish-Russian borderlands. I argue that at the time the discourse about the Swedish-Russian relationships stretched out and made the northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia into a vast frontier between the west and the east, the occident and the orient and civilisation versus barbarism. In making borders culturally significant, material culture plays a vital role. In the article I analyze flags, border stones and the fortifications in Boden, Sweden. Through the discourse about the fortifications, the borderlands between Sweden and the Grand Duchy of Finland took on a new strategic meaning. In the political and public debate they served as a means to bring together trade, industry, communication and defence politics into one overarching narrative. The general argument of my article is that the historical study of borderlands can benefit from analyzing significant political debates, and from exploring the material culture of past borderlands.

1.Changing Emperorship: Setting the Scene --Factors Influencing Emperorship between AD 193 and 284 --Consequences for the Position of the Emperor --2.The Impact of Crises on the Position of the Senatorial Elite --Establishing the Senatorial Elite in theThird Century --Analyzing the Selected Families --Defining a Nucleus within the Senatorial Elite --Excursus. Prosopography of the Senatorial Elite Families --3.Praetorian Prefects and Other High-ranking Equestrians --The Increasing Responsibilities of High Equestrians in Imperial Administration --The Status of High-ranking Equestrians in the Third Century --The praefecti praetorio: A Case Study --4.High-ranking Military Officers: Septimius Severus versus Gallienus --Septimius Severus and HisMilitary Officers --Gallienus andHisMilitary Officers --Conclusion --Appendix 1.List of Emperors and Usurpers (AD 193 and 284) --Appendix 2.Lists ofMen Holding Senatorial Elite Positions between AD 193 and 284 --Appendix 3.List of Praefecti Praetorio between AD 193 and 284 --Bibliography --General Index --Index of Ancient Persons.