Islam and International Hotspots

Author: Jin Yijiu
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Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book is divided into five parts. Part I serves as the preface, providing a brief discussion on the concept of Islam and international politics, the development models of Islam, the Islamic world, the development and evolution of Islam in modern times, and the consequential issues related to Islam and international politics. Part II selects 13 representative countries in the Islamic world to discuss the issues of the relationship between politics and religion in these countries. This primarily includes the spread of Islam in these countries, the Islamic revival in the countries since the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the issues of the relationship between politics and religion in the 1980s and 1990s. The purpose of this part is to lay the groundwork for the subsequent chapters to be discussed. Part III discusses regional conflicts and wars during the Cold War period. The content of this part actually involves regional political issues. Part IV discusses the Islamic world during the Cold War period. The issues discussed in this part still fall under regional political issues. It explores how some Islamic countries, under the bipolar structure of international politics, both relied on the two superpowers—America and the Soviet Union—and responded, either strongly or weakly, to the intense competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the Islamic world. Part V discusses the Islamic world after the Cold War from different perspectives. The dissolution of the Soviet Union, the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, and the disappearance of the bipolar structure led international politics to evolve toward multipolarity. Finally, the book will provide a comprehensive discussion on the issue of Islamic factors in contemporary international politics as a concluding chapter.