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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Baker, Raymond William

Titel

POSSIBLE PARTNERS, PROBABLE ENEMIES: WHY THE US IS LOSING THE ISLAMIC MAINSTREAM

Ist Teil von

• Arab studies quarterly, 2009-12, Vol.31 (1/2), p.81-103

Ort / Verlag

London: Association of Arab-American University Graduates

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Baker argues that the United States, in particular, and the West, in general, fails to recognize the Islamic mainstream as a potential partner in world-wide struggles for freedom and democracy. This reality is obscured because increasingly, across the Arab Islamic world, these emancipatory struggles are waged under centrist Islamist banners. While it is unlikely that US official policies will change any time soon, there are openings for Western civil society institutions with democratic and anti-imperial orientations to offset these damaging consequences of US policies and to create cooperative openings to the Islamic mainstream.