The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East: Power from or to the People?
The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East: Power from or to the People?

Author: Mr Kingshuk Chatterjee

Publisher: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd

Published: 2014-03-15

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9385714457

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The ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East as a whole would seem to be essentially a contest between the minimalist and maximalist positions on popular sovereignty: should power merely come from, and be exercised in the name of, the people? Or, should those in power be fully accountable to the people? The dilemma warrants a closer look. The present volume comes out of an international conference held in Calcutta, India organised by the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Centre for Pakistan and West Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in March 2013. This volume aims not at a definitive analysis of why what happened did happen; it aims instead at getting a sense of what was actually happening, and what is at issue.

Political Faultlines in the Middle East
Political Faultlines in the Middle East

Author: Kingshuk Chatterjee

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1000897958

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The region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of which particular crises confronting the component countries happen to be merely subsets. The real questions revolve round the issue of how long can the present dispensations of power and social structures in the region forged in the twentieth century (first half or second) can last in the twenty-first, when they no longer reflect the realities on the ground. This volume aims to look at some of the issues to see how the faultlines in the region appear in 2020 to both those in the region, and those outside it. The volume limits itself to only Levant and the Gulf and looks at the tensions within and policies (both foreign and domestic) of some of the key regional players which have regional repercussions. It also looks at the policies of some of the global players operating in the region that have bearing on the regional faultlines. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

The Caliphate of Man
The Caliphate of Man

Author: Andrew F. March

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0674987837

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A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of “political Islam.” Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the sharīʿa in modern societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced another principle, the Quranic notion that God’s authority on earth rests not with sultans or with scholars’ interpretation of written law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abū’l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī and Sayyid Quṭb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue in which the people have authority over the government and religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only as theory?

Kurdish Politics in Iran
Kurdish Politics in Iran

Author: Allan Hassaniyan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10-21

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1009034642

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Reflecting on seven decades of the Iranian Kurdish movement, this history of its development from 1947 offers a vivid and comprehensive analysis of the politicisation of national sentiments within Iran, and the connections the movement made and developed with Kurdish groups in Iraq.

Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics
Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics

Author: Stefanie Ullmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-23

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1000398986

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Drawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring. The volume begins by summarising key events of the Arab Spring, tracing the development of protests from Tunisia and Egypt to Libya and Syria as well as the wider impact on the region. Ullmann builds on this foundation to lay out the theoretical frameworks to be applied to an extensive corpus of natural language and actual discourse highlighting Western, Middle Eastern, and North African perspectives which integrate theoretical work on metaphor, blending theory, and semantic prosodies. Methodological considerations on corpus selection and different conceptualisations of politics and mass media, generally and across countries, are discussed, with the final chapters outlining the overarching themes across metaphors in the corpus and how these metaphors were ultimately framed in the mass media and political landscape. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars interested in critical discourse analysis, language and politics, and corpus linguistics.

Conceptualizing Mass Violence
Conceptualizing Mass Violence

Author: Navras J. Aafreedi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-13

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1000381315

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Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence in South Asia. The essays explore and deliberate upon the varied aspects of mass violence, namely revisionism, reconstruction, atrocities, trauma, memorialization and literature, the need for Holocaust education, and the criticality of dialogue and reconciliation. The language, content, and characteristics of mass violence/genocide explicitly reinforce its aggressive, transmuting, and multifaceted character and the consequent necessity to understand the same in a nuanced manner. The book is an attempt to do so as it takes episodes of mass violence for case study from all inhabited continents, from the twentieth century to the present. The volume studies ‘consciously enforced mass violence’ through an interdisciplinary approach and suggests that dialogue aimed at reconciliation is perhaps the singular agency via which a solution could be achieved from mass violence in the global context. The volume is essential reading for postgraduate students and scholars from the interdisciplinary fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, World History, Human Rights, and Global Studies.

Globalization and Popular Sovereignty
Globalization and Popular Sovereignty

Author: Adam Lupel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1135969310

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This volume analyzes the impact of globalization on the concept of popular sovereignty, seeking to better understand the emerging structures of global governance and their potential for democratic legitimacy.

Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Author: Abbas Kadhim

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1136959661

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Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government performance.

Sovereignty in Action
Sovereignty in Action

Author: Bas Leijssenaar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1108483518

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Sovereignty, originally the figure of 'sovereign', then the state, today meets new challenges of globalization and privatization of power.

Definition and Development of Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty in Europe
Definition and Development of Human Rights and Popular Sovereignty in Europe

Author: European Commission for Democracy through Law

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9789287171344

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What role do the people play in defining and developing human rights? This volume explores the very topical issue of the lack of democratic legitimisation of national and international courts and the question of whether rendering the original process of defining human rights more democratic at the national and international level would improve the degree of protection they afford. The authors venture to raise the crucial question: When can a democratic society be considered to be mature enough so as to be trusted to provide its own definition of human rights obligations?