The Iraq War
A Philosophical Analysis
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Bassam La**
Political Science and International Relations
Political Theory
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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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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 ...
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Institutions of Learning and Education in Islam: between the Cultural Accommodation of Change, Religious Orthodoxy and the Politics of Cultural Islamisation
Throughout Islamic history the conflict between the Enlightenment, that is, recognition of the primacy of reason vis-à-vis the sacred, and religious orthodoxy has revolved around a fight over the control of the i...
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Islam Matters to the West! Islam and Europe, Islam in Europe: Islamic Migration between Cultural Assimilation, Political Integration and Communitarian Ghettoisation
When at the present time it comes to addressing Islam, we often encounter references to the notions of modernity, as well as to postmodernity.1 In this context the perennial question was asked in the headline of ...
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September 11, the Global Cultural Turn and the Return of the Sacred in Islamic Civilisation: between Religious Revival and the New Totalitarianism of Political Islam
No prudent observer or analyst of contemporary history can escape the fact of the return of the sacred in general, and its pertinence to the world of Islam in particular. Islam is not only a religion, but also...
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Religion, Culture and Social Reality: Islam as a Cultural System, and its Diversity
The understanding of religion in the present study is based on a combination of two ways of looking at religion: religion as a source of meaning and as incorporated into reality. I view religion as belief but ...
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Culture and Social Change: Tradition and Innovation in Cultural Analysis
Religion is a cultural system and culture is increasingly becoming a pertinent issue in world politics, but the debate on these issues is quite hazy. We need to ask: What is culture? At the outset we may obser...
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The Politicisation of Religion: Political Islam as a Defensive-Cultural Response to Global Challenges. A Social-Scientific Interpretation
Political religion as it occurs at times imbued with ethnicity, and in some cases (for example, Islam) mixed with universalist claims is the hallmark of our age. However, this phenomenon has precedents. The hi...
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Social Change and the Potential for Flexibility in Islamic Law: the Shari’a between Ethics and Politicisation
In most religions, religious scholars are basically theologians. In contrast, learned men of religion in Islam are sacral jurists/faqihs (in Arabic: fuqaha), not theologians (mutakallimun). In medieval Islam a re...
