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The rise of Islamic activism worldwide, including the appearance of illiberal politics in Islamic cultural areas (ICAs), is usually seen as a reaction to globalizing modernization. Based on the assumption of an elective affinity between Western cultural assets & liberal democracy, most analysts neglect to see globalization, particularly, in its predatory form, as a constitutive condition of Islamism. Accentuating the cultural divide within ICAs, predatory globalization strives to constrict political space for democratic expression. The growing disconnect between an already fractured political community & an increasingly illegitimate state provides Islamicists the opening to capture key institutions in civil society or to create alternative avenues of communal identity, participation, & civic action. Prospects for building a liberal democratic order hinge mainly on a resolution of the internal dialectic within ICAs. The unstoppable march of predatory globalization, however, appears unlikely to yield either the political space or the historical time to bridge the deep chasm within ICAs. 18 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

Though a contemporary civil society is beginning to surface in Pakistan, this chapter argues that Pakistan's version of civil society is "savage," in that it is tied to a unique strain of capitalism that is often found in environments that are poor, multiethnic, & multilingual. The chapter comprises four main sections: (1) the contemporary unfolding of civil society, (2) the relationship that exists between capitalism & inequality, (3) the development of civil society in Pakistan, & (4) the need to further analyze Pakistani & other emerging civil societies. K. Larsen

Though a contemporary civil society is beginning to surface in Pakistan, this chapter argues that Pakistan's version of civil society is "savage," in that it is tied to a unique strain of capitalism that is often found in environments that are poor, multiethnic, & multilingual. The chapter comprises four main sections: (1) the contemporary unfolding of civil society, (2) the relationship that exists between capitalism & inequality, (3) the development of civil society in Pakistan, & (4) the need to further analyze Pakistani & other emerging civil societies. K. Larsen

Nach einem einführenden Überblick über die Probleme der Dürre und des Hungers in weiten Teilen Afrikas werden diese Probleme in ihrer Beziehung zur Militarisierung am Beispiel des Konflikts zwischen Äthiopien und Somalia einerseits und der eritreischen Revolution andererseits untersucht. (DÜI-Hns)