Global Islamism-Understanding and Strategy

Islamism and Totalitarianism

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...

Muslims and Modernities: From Islamism to Post-Islamism?

A !is article problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of a singular and superior Western modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of multiple modernities. !is approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedite...

Globalizing Istanbul: Gender and the Local/Global Production of Islamism [Draft]

Construction and Validation of Critical Understanding of the Global Spread of English Scale (CUGSES)

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CMS 2001 Strategy Stream Understanding Organisational Strategy

'Strategy' is apparently an easily understood concept; this has led academics to overlook research into its meaning in favour of prescribing/describing its formation. Their lack of success in this endeavour may be rooted in an insufficient understanding of the phenomenon, for when prominent writers define strategy they conclude after much elaboration that it is an ‘elusive’ phenomenon. This inq...