Religion and International Relations in the Middle East

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Author: Sotiris Roussos

Publisher/Publication: MDPI

DOI/ISBN: 978-3-03936-528-9

The aim of the book is to present the impact that religion and religious actors have on international politics under a new light. While secularization processes and the idea of the nation-state as the sole important actor in international politics have dominated international fora, as well as the institutions which comprise the international world order as we know it, religion as a unifying factor, and as a new element which should not be ignored is coming to the forefront. The many and distinctive chapters of this book present different facets through which religion has played an important and non-dismissible part in the problems and situations which nation-states – as defined throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century – have had to face. The issues that are analysed – to name a few – are the hybrid identity of the Islamic State, post-secularization in power politics, and the rise of Political Islam in the Middle East.