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Intro -- Crisis Theory and World Order -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Theoretical Critique -- 1. Crisis Theory: The Challenge to Peace Research -- 2. The Problem of World Order: Overcoming the Logic of Statecraft -- 3. The Metaphysical Ground of World Order Thinking -- 4. Planetary Politics and the Essence of Technology -- PART TWO: Essential Political Thinking -- 5. A Pathway to Essential Political Thinking -- 6. The Essence of Political Being -- CONCLUSION: Projecting-Open [ENTWURF] with Heidegger -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CONCLUSION -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Government authorities in Bangladesh recently were placed in an awkward and extraordinary position of having to make a presumably difficult decision: how to respond to a man's request to have his two sons and grandson euthanized. This is an extraordinary request for a developing country's health service authorities to consider, especially in the context of a Muslim-majority population where any appeal to the legitimacy of suicide (and, by extension, physician-assisted suicide) would be automatically rejected as contrary to Islamic moral and jurisprudential principles. Here the case is reviewed in the context of arguments that engage non-voluntary euthanasia and the local context of inadequate health service delivery.

Observers of contemporary politics know that Islamic extremism presents 'the West' with a serious challenge of national and international security consequent to terrorist events of recent time. In addition to constabulary and military responses, there remains the more fundamental question about how to understand Islamist ideology and how counter-narratives might be framed in the interest of law and morality, especially in Muslim-minority nation-states. One of the central problems with Islamist ideology is a narrow and dogmatic conception of Islamic law. Tariq Ramadan is an example of a contemporary Islamic scholar concerned with Islamic reform. Ronald Dworkin is among the most prominent philosophers of law immersed in the Western legal tradition. Both scholars appreciate the linkage of law and morality, in which case the parameters of a counter-narrative to Islamist ideology may be found by juxtaposing some fundamentals of interpretation that each scholar presents in his work. This article attempts to show, through a comparative analysis of this kind, how and why the concept of law presented by Islamist ideology is flawed; and why the methods of Islamic jurisprudence require attention to Islamic ethics as well.

Swazo reviews BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND MIDDLE EAST POLICY: THE PROMISED LAND, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL 1917-2002 by Irvine H. Anderson and JERUSALEM BESIEGED: FROM ANCIENT CANAAN TO MODERN ISRAEL by Eric H. Cline.

Swazo reviews PHILOSOPHY OF THE UNITED STATES: LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS by Gordon L. Anderson.