Shanti Nair

Islam in Malaysian Foreign Policy (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A case study of a multi-ethnic Muslim state and a contribution to the study of the domestic functions of foreign policy. The book also addresses the real and imagined significance of Islam as a force in contemporary global politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134960996
• Artikelnr.: 47888637

Autorenporträt

Shanti Nair

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Locating Islam in international relations
The relationship between foreign policy and domestic policy: foreign policy as domestic policy by other means
Notes
1 Islam in Malay politics
Islam in Malay political culture
Islam in Malay political development
Notes
2 The internationalization of Malay-Muslim society
Islam in Malaysian foreign policy 1957-1978: government and Party attitudes
The expansion of the Malay universe
The internationalization of dakwah
The impact of the Iranian revolution
The Muslim world in the fifteenth century
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The ascension of the Mahathir Administration: a new strategy in foreign policy
Leadership perceptions of foreign policy
Notes
3 Mahathir, moderation and modernization: "right" Islam
Building an identity
Political Islam at the multilateral level
Political Islam at the bilateral level
Islam, Malay development and the Mahathir philosophy
The economic value of Islam in foreign relations
'Ijtihad and the "problem" of authority
The limits of "right" identity
Notes
4 Extremism: "wrong" Islam
Malaysia and Islamic radicalism
Iran, intra-Malay rivalry and the constitutional crisis
Extremism" in international relations
"Extremism" and dakwah
"Extremism" and Malaysian students
UMNO and unofficial foreign policy
Notes
5 Building the umma: Malaysia and Muslim minorities
Malaysia and Thailand
Malaysia and the Philippines
Malaysia, Singapore and other regional Muslims
Aiding Southeast Asian Muslims
Aiding extra-regional Muslim minorities
Notes
6 Co-religionism: Palestine and Afghanistan
The Palestinian struggle
The Afghan struggle
Nationalism or Islam?
Non-Muslim support: the Malaysian identity
Anti-Zionism
The Herzog incident
The political aftermath
Notes
7 Post-Cold War religious identity
The Gulf War
Malaysia and the Palestinian issue in the 1990s
The issue of Bosnia
Islamic identity in a post-ideological age
Notes
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