İZÜ Araştırma ve Akademik Performans Sistemi
DSpace@İZÜ, İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi’nin bilimsel araştırma ve akademik performansını izleme, analiz etme ve raporlama süreçlerini tek çatı altında buluşturan bütünleşik bilgi sistemidir.
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Öğe Türü: Yayın , Global Powers, Democracy, and Coups(İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, 2022) Al-Arian, Sami A.; Eryan, Muhammet SamiIn geopolitics, great powers play a significant role in shaping the globalorder. For example, Great Britain played a major role in shaping the worldin the 19th and early 20th centuries. Similarly, the United States played aprimary role in shaping the post-World War II international system. Insuch structures, great powers go to great lengths to align their grandstrategy with their vision of a global order and the role they play withinit.Since its emergence as the primary great power in the international systemin the aftermath of WWII, the United States’ grand strategy has been tomaintain its leading status globally, and to thwart any attempt by anyother great power to challenge it, or for any emerging power to attemptto become a regional hegemon, which could potentially challenge U.S.power and influence in other vital regions. Accordingly, great powers areruthless in trying to maintain their domination or hegemony over othersmaller or middle power nations. Moreover, they are willing to use anymeans available including the use of invasions, waging wars, occupyingother countries, sponsoring coups, imposing sanctions, or fomentinginsurrections. Such tactics are used in order to impede or hinder theircompetitors, adversaries, or challengers, if and when they are perceivedto stand in the way of their grand strategy, or jeopardize what greatpowers define as their vital interests.Öğe Türü: Yayın , Western Hegemony and the Challenge of Wars and Terrorism(İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, 2020) Falk, Richard; Leverett, FlyntGeopolitical Studies remains one of the primary fields of study at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA), particularly as it relates to the changes and transformations within the Muslim World. The following two papers were originally presened at the first CIGA international conference by two prominent scholars. The first dealt with the impacts of Western, particularly American, hegemony on the Arab World by Prof. Richard Falk, while the second dealt with the Challenges of Wars and Terrorism by Prof. Flynt Leverett. It gives us great pleasure at CIGA to have such prominent scholars join our conversation on such important topics.Department for Geopolitical and Strategic Studies (GPSS)Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)Öğe Türü: Yayın , The Politics of the Headscarf and Recognition in Finland’sIntegration Debates(İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, 2022) Hyökki, LindaMuslim women and the Islamic headscarf are recurrent themes in Finnishsocio-political discussions focusing on the limits and possibilities ofimmigrant integration. In this short study, I analyze the way Finnishpolitical discourse is instrumentalized in order to negatively frameMuslim immigrant women (specifically those who wear the Islamicheadscarf) as unable to integrate into Finnish society. The premise of myargument is the acknowledgement of integration as a two-way processand of individual identities as dependent on recognition by one'ssignificant others. I thus argue that, for successful integration, societymust facilitate recognition of the immigrants' religious identities andpractices and avoid legislative governance measures such as headscarfbans which misrecognize Muslim women's identities.Öğe Türü: Yayın , Islamophobia, Geopolitics and the Clash of Civilizations(İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, 2019) Norton, Anne; Sayyid, SalmanOver the last two centuries, different political actors around theworld––from the United States to China, and from Russia to Israel––haveused Islamophobia to expand or consolidate their political power. Indeed,the geopolitics of Islamophobia refers not only to its political-economicdimensions, but also to its functional use as part of various strategicimperatives and tools employed by regional and global powers to advancecolonialist objectives, empire expansion, or narrow self-interests. It istherefore of vital importance to imbue into the public mind (particularlyamong the young generations) the notion that Islamophobia is not justabout religious prejudices or social exclusion, but more importantly, is anessential feature of the global racial hierarchy that may be adapted indifferent contexts in order to assert control or achieve superior power,control, and wealth.The two contributions published in this booklet were part of thesecond Islamophobia conference organized by CIGA in 2019. Theconference explored the impact of Islamophobia on culture, society,politics, and international relations. In her paper, Anne Norton revisits theClash of Civilizations theory in the ruins of the American empire. Shetries to contextualize Islamophobia as a manifestation of the fadingAmerican empire by answering important questions in the context of itscollapse such as: What does it mean to live in the ruins of empire? Whatdo empires ruin? What ruins do empires leave behind? What survives inthe ruins of empire, and what can be made of it?Salman Sayyid discusses the Geopolitics of Islamophobia. Heargues that the geopolitics of Islamophobia is about how the world hasbeen configured into a one in which the Muslim presence is hostile to itsperpetuation and thus presents it with a real challenge.These outstanding scholars give thought provoking and piercingpresentations that would hopefully allow for more stimulating debatesand discussions by students, intellectuals, and experts about thisimportant topic.Öğe Türü: Yayın , Examining American Islam(İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi, 2023) Al-Arian, Abdullah; Kanjwal, Hafsah; Hamdah, Butheina; Alarian, RiadExplaining the cause and character of one’s religious or nationalidentity is often like constructing a rather large, if not intimidating, jigsawpuzzle. Daunting as the task may initially seem, we can nonethelessorganize the puzzle pieces into something reasonably coherent with justa bit of effort. But if answering what it means to “be a Muslim” or “be anAmerican” is simply a matter of putting together the pieces of a puzzle,then addressing the far more nebulous question of what it means to “bean American Muslim” is like composing the overture to an orchestralpiece.What does it mean to have an American Muslim identity? Is theresuch a thing as an American Islam? If so, what do its adherents representand what exactly does it mean to “be an. American Muslim?” These arequestions which, for at least the better part of the last two decades, havecome to occupy the minds of American Muslims and non-Muslims alike.Reacting to the various social and political pressures they nowface, American Muslims have worked tirelessly to explain therelationship between their religious and national identities. Many of theseefforts have involved insisting on the allegedly natural, longstandingharmony that exists between Islamic norms, on the one hand, andAmerican values, on the other. Indeed, there is no shortage of editorialsand public statements from American Muslim leaders and thinkersaffirming this belief.Of all Muslim minority groups in the world, American Muslimsare arguably the most socially assimilated, and are noticeably proud ofthat fact. Unlike French or British Muslims, for example, AmericanMuslims have more seamlessly integrated into the fabric of Americansociety. Partly for this reason, American Muslims have come to think ofthemselves as admirably different from the rest of the Muslim world. Ifanything does truly distinguish American Muslims, it is surely this beliefin their own extraordinariness.In line with this belief, American Muslims are increasingly accepting, adopting, and defending social and political causes that are traditionally looked at with moral suspicion by the majority of Muslims worldwide. This ranges from the promotion of non-heteronormative sexual lifestyles to the endorsement of Israeli claims to Palestinian land. Many American Muslims have chosen to break with the consensus of their religious community on these and other matters, in large part to more closely align with the general, mainstream American consensus. These realities make it all the more difficult to navigate what it means to be both a Muslim and an American today. To better understand these timely and complicated issues, This volume has three essays from American Muslim scholars and researchers, analyzing various elements of the American Muslim experience. The contributions in this collection will broadly inspect the relationship between so-called “American” and “Islamic” values—paying particular attention to the impact of the former on the latter. To varying degrees, the essays discuss the following questions: What is American Islam? What makes American Islam unique? To what extent has American Islam been influenced by liberal principles, and what are those principles? To what extent have these influences been positive or negative? What social and political forces, if any, influenced the “liberalization” of Islam inAmerica? What are some of the ways in which this phenomenon is arguably evident?Department of Islamophobia and Muslim Minorities Studies (IMSS) Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)
