Journal of International Affairs articles from June 1996

Journal of International Affairs archives from June 1996

The worldwide rise of religious nationalism.
June 22, 1996... "Palestine is not completely free," a leader of Hamas' policy wing remarked, "until it is an Islamic state."(1) The Hamas activist made this statement in Gaza only a few months before the January 1996 elections, an event that not only brought...

Religious fundamentalism and human rights.
June 22, 1996... The concept of religious fundamentalism is in the eyes of the beholder. What could be regarded by one person to be a legitimate exposition or practice of religious obligation might be perceived by others as the manifestations of unbecoming...

Terrorism in the name of religion.
June 22, 1996... Introduction On 25 February 1994, the day of the second Muslim sabbath during Islam's holy month of Ramadan, a Zionist settler from the orthodox settlement of Qiryat Arba entered the crowded Ibrahim (Abraham's) Mosque, located in the...

Where hope and history rhyme - prospects for peace in Northern Ireland?
June 22, 1996... On 31 August 1994, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a complete cessation of military operations, foreshadowing the hope that an end had come to the use of violence to achieve political ends in Northern Ireland. The IRA, a secret and...

Religion and politics in Jerusalem.
June 22, 1996... Few can deny that, as Helena Cobban suggests, "what happens in Jerusalem over the next couple of years will be a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in determining whether the peace process... can stay on the rails."(1) Jerusalem is...

The Middle East in search of an equilibrium between transcendent idealism & practicality.
June 22, 1996... The following article is an attempt to introduce, observe and assess a specific aspect of the recent history of Iran and apply it to the future trend of this nation's growth. In many ways, Iran is a typical example of a Middle Eastern nation...

A theology if insurrection? Religion and politics in Mexico.
June 22, 1996... My children: A new dispensation comes to us today. Will you receive it? Will you free yourselves? Will you recover the lands stolen three hundred years ago from your forefathers by the hated Spaniards?... Will you not defend your religion and...

Asian values.(and international relations)
June 22, 1996... In his 1995 speech to the United Nations, China's state chairman Jiang Zemin asserted: The sacred nature of state sovereignty is inviolable. No state has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of another or force its own will on...

African churches in social transformation.
June 22, 1996... Introduction It is an ironic twist of history that Euro-American interests in the "democratization" of Africa accelerated after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, rather than at the establishment of African republics following...

Religion, conflict and prospects for reconciliation in Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia.
June 22, 1996... Introduction A history textbook used by high school seniors throughout Serbia blames the outbreak of the current conflict in the former Yugoslavia on the Vatican, which "launched a battle against Orthodoxy and Serbs through the catholic...

The ruined center: religion and mass politics in India.
June 22, 1996... Introduction The famous Soviet dissident Andrej Amalrik predicted that 1984 would be the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was right about its eventual collapse, but wrong about the year. Instead, 1984 turned out to be a...

From accomodation to confrontation: the Muslim Brotherhood in the Mubarak years. (Egypt, Hosni Mubarak)
June 22, 1996... Introduction On 23 November 1995, Egypt's Supreme Military Court sentenced 54 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood to prison terms ranging from 3 to 5 years with hard labor. The trial marked the culmination of a turbulent four-year...

Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World.
June 22, 1996... The title of this book, Faith and Freedom, grabs the reader by the collar and demands to know where the line is to be drawn between these two basic rights. As if thus being shaken throughout this collection of essays, the reader is left with...

Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture and Strategic Choices.
June 22, 1996... The growing political strength of the fundamentalist Christian bloc has sparked a new interest in the role that religion plays in the American political process. However, much of the media's coverage has focused specifically on the Christian...

Slaughter Among Neighbors: The Political Origins of Communal Violence.
June 22, 1996... The Cold War ended and the battles of ancient ethnic hatreds began. At least that is how history might write the late twentieth century, if it were to rely on the picture painted by the journalists and editorial writers in the 1990s. Current...

Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion in America.
June 22, 1996... Ever since the 1720s, when the Reverend Increase Mather, father of the fire-and-brimstone breathing Cotton Mather, as well as a pillar of Bostonian clerical establishment, denounced the local broad sheet as spreading "cursed libel" and called...

The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Contract.
June 22, 1996... For many nations, the end of the Cold War marked a shift from external conflict to a crisis from within: a crisis for legitimacy. The attempt to create a political system in which the ruler and the rebel can coexist in peace is not always...