The Iraq War
A Philosophical Analysis
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Bassam La**
Political Science and International Relations
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Islamism and the Political Order
The first step in the Islamist invention of Islamic tradition is to establish a new understanding of Islam as din-wa-dawla: religion united with a state order. When Islamists speak of al-hall al-Islami (Islamic s...
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Economic Diversification in Arab Oil-Exporting Countries in the Context of Peak Oil and the Energy Transition
A renewed sense of urgency has arisen around diversification in Arab oil-exporting countries, driven by a paradigm shift around the future prospects of global oil demand, and whether the oil industry will cont...
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The Past, Present, and Future Role of OPEC
This chapter reviews the general history of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and evolution of models explaining its role in the world’s oil market in the context of key events. OPEC’s v...
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The Middle East Torn Between Rival Choices: Islamism, International Security and Democratic Peace
This chapter aims to place the events of the Arab Spring in the debate on regional and international security. It does this equally in terms of desecuritizing and resecuritizing but it operates on grounds diff...
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Syria, the Arab Uprisings, and the Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience
This paper examines the causes of the Arab uprisings with emphasis on the Syrian case, particularly in terms of political-economic elements that seems to escape most analysis of causes. We usually receive a ste.....
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Introduction
The general task of philosophizing war is commonly carried out within specific theoretical structures that standardize the moral assessment of war. Arguing about War is frequently pursued within a moral continuum...
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Concluding Remarks
The catastrophic sequence of global events inaugurating the new millennium— 9/11, the War on Terror, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war— has significantly shaped our understanding of new wars. The triad of unconve...
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The Question of Just War
The quandary about warfare might initially suggest that workable solutions to the problem of war exist. Throughout the past century, the perpetual drive toward framing the problem of war, and especially its condu...
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The Question of Democracy
A political crusade began to take shape in the early years of the twenty-first century that defended the use of armed conflict to achieve the avowed objective of creating democracy. The crusade accepts a variety ...
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Philosophizing War
The three main wars of the new millennium waged by the United States— the War on Terror and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars— produced fertile ground for philosophical analysis. In the early days of the Iraq war, th...
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The Question of Humanitarian Intervention
In the vast terrain of arguments and debates surrounding the war on Iraq, many ex post facto attempts have been made to defend the invasion by appealing to humanitarian considerations, despite the absence of ad b...
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The Question of Preventive War
Events of the past few decades have consistently worked to modify our conception of international justice, international ethics, political violence, terrorism, and global warfare. The early years of the twenty-fi...
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Euro-Islam: An Alternative to Islamization and Ethnicity of Fear
Although the history of interaction between Islam and Europe is as old as both civilizations, Islam’s return to Europe in the late twentieth century in the context of global migration has ushered in an entirel...
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Inter-civilizational Conflict between Value Systems and Concepts of Order: Exploring the Islamic Humanist Potential for a Peace of Ideas
The concept and the reality of a “War of Ideas” being waged within a new Cold War predate 9/11. The former bipolar East-West conflict between competing systems has been replaced by a new polarization. The new ...
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Introduction: Islam between Culture and Politics — the Scope and Implications
Islam is a world religion, and it also forms the basis of a world civilisation which was once very powerful. Due to its spread across the world Islamic civilisation is composed of a great variety of diverse lo...
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Cultural Patterns and the Perception of Change in Islam. A Religious Model for Reality: the Islamic Worldview
Cultural diversity in Islam contradicts the political notion of Islam as a monolithic unity and of Muslims as one umma. This notion can be found equally — albeit for different motives and with varying degrees of ...
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The Dichotomy of Structural Globalisation and Fragmenting Cultural Self-Assertion: the Case of Islamic Civilisation
The present analysis of the oscillation in Islam between culture and politics is not a narrative of topical events, but is rather ambitious in that it attempts to identify the issues and find ways to gain a be...
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From Religious Belief to Political Commitment: the Fundamentalist Revolt against the Secular Order. Between Cultural Modernity and Neo-Absolutism
The reader is already familiar with my criticism on considering the study of culture as well as its application to Islam to be a kind of monopoly for cultural anthropologists.1 Hitherto, the exception of a small ...
