The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (Pascale Ghazaleh's Tr)
In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 128-131
ISSN: 0892-6794
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In: Ethics & international affairs, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 128-131
ISSN: 0892-6794
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 404-405
ISSN: 1537-5927
In: The independent review: journal of political economy, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 249-257
ISSN: 1086-1653
Considers the phenomenon of fraud & corruption in the European Union (EU) where member states seem to have manifested a benign neglect toward it. EU & European Economic Community institutions are overviewed before looking at the EU annual budget & programs. It is contended that the EU's peculiar institutional arrangements contribute to fraud against the budget & shed light on why more & better action has not been taken against it. The Common Agricultural Policy, taker of the EU's largest budget share, is examined to demonstrate some kinds of fraud & the poor means of monitoring for it. With no commonly applied definition of fraud, which is transnational by nature, among EU members, enforcement mechanisms remain weak; national administrative & justice systems inconsistently respond to fraud. Member state reluctance to cede further sovereignty to the EU hampers efforts to provide an institutional solution (eg, an EU office of public prosecutor). Coupled with a desire to protect national economic interests, the member states have effectively created a market for fraud. 14 References. J. Zendejas
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 65-89
ISSN: 1469-9044
Africa's relation to the concept and practice of 'state' and 'states system' has been problematic since its first encounters with those who were armed with the concept. In observing the collapse of authority and governance in a number of African states, some scholars have suggested that Africa presented the states system with alternative political organizations. Others argue that so long as there is a kernel of armed authority in territorially demarcated areas, a state exists. Africa's polities have often responded unconventionally, yet strategically, to interaction with the sovereign state system first elaborated by the Europeans. To comprehend the novelty, or lack of it, in the 'state system' of contemporary Africa, we need to know something about its pre-colonial political structures and organizations and about the imprint of empires (the construct which effectively limited the 'international' system of sovereign states to the West) on Africa. Did colonialism and the Western system of sovereign states rule out alternative structures for the newly independent African states? What might alternative structures have looked like? What impact did colonial rule have on the development of states in Africa? Does contemporary Africa have a 'state system'? This article addresses these questions in the context of the Special Issue's concern with both the structure of the international system and developments among and between the units.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, Heft Special Issue : Empires, S. 65-89
ISSN: 0260-2105
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In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 27, S. 65-89
ISSN: 0260-2105
Discusses the rise of the state system in Africa & the difficulty among scholars in defining the concept of the state in the context of Africa. The author reviews the types of political communities present in pre-colonial Africa & discusses the problem of defining the state through an analysis of Islam-based polities, wherein membership was based on allegiance to a belief rather than a territory or clan. The term "state" is insufficient in describing many pre-colonial African societies because they do not meet the basic criteria set for them by the Western sovereign state model. The impacts of (1) the international political economy on emerging African structures & (2) colonial rule on the current African state system while stunting its growth are assessed. In postcolonial times, the Pan-African movement failed to provide an alternative structure for political organization & authority in Africa. The author concludes that based on the current structure of the international system of states, perhaps Africa has to force its politics into the "state" format when it seems unable to do so. Africa may continue to operate within a variety of political forms as it did centuries prior to colonialism. J. Moses
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 321-325
ISSN: 1469-9044
The political scientist who relies upon historiographic sources to propose and test
hypotheses runs the risk of riling up not only her peers in the discipline, but also the
historians upon whose work she must rely to provide the materials for these hypotheses.
It was intellectually satisfying and stimulating to learn that my work has been
read not only by scholars in 'my' discipline, but also by those in the discipline which
made my own analysis possible, and I am grateful for Professor Hopkins' extensive
comments. As Hopkins notes, there are differences in the orientation of the two
disciplines: political science has as one of its central concerns 'the state', while
historians are more interested 'in charting changing relativities in international
relations'. As a political scientist, I am indeed interested in identifying the factors
which lead to such changes.
In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 233-255
ISSN: 1469-9044
This article challenges two prevailing views of the failure by African polities to attain sovereign statehood in the late 19th century by providing evidence from two case studies showing that many African polities were not 'quasi-states,' lacking the empirical political and economic capacity to join the international community of sovereign states. Nor were they unable to sustain or promote international commerce. Instead, when heightened international economic competition threatened the profits of European traders, European interests pressed for pro-expansionist policies and for conditions deemed necessary for the success of European commerce.
In: Comparative political studies: CPS, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 400-403
ISSN: 1552-3829
In: Review of international political economy, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 508-533
ISSN: 1466-4526
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 533-548
ISSN: 1460-3683
Analyses of patronage and political parties often start from the assumption that patronage is a vote-winning and useful organizational strategy for a political party. This paper questions this assumption and suggests that, for the political party using it, patronage exacts a variety of costs. These undermine the party's existence as an organization with a collective purpose, and even its vote-winning capacities. Examples from a number of different countries and parties illustrate the argument.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 533-548
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 718-744
ISSN: 1755-0491
AbstractWhile debates continue about the relationship between state-provided social welfare and religious charities, and whether organized religions are more capable of providing social welfare than is the public sector, less attention has focused on the question of what motivates religious adherents to contribute to the charitable work of their religions. In this article, we examine how adherents of Catholicism and Islam understand their generosity and its relationship to their faith. Through 218 semi-structured interviews with Catholics and Muslims in four cities in France, Ireland, Italy, and Turkey, we find systematic differences between the two religions. Catholics emphasize love of others and Muslims emphasize duty to God. We also find, contrary to expectations of the literature that emphasizes monitoring and sanctioning within groups to obtain cooperation, that Catholics and Muslims see their generosity as also motivated by the positive affect they feel towards their respective communities.
In: Foreign policy analysis: a journal of the International Studies Association, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 113-135
ISSN: 1743-8586
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In: Foreign policy analysis, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 113-135
ISSN: 1743-8594