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The politics of secularism in international relations

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Author)
Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the "secular" in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this thinking is flawed, and provides a powerful alternative
eBook, English, ©2008
Princeton University Press, Princeton, ©2008
Case studies (form)
1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages)
9781400828012, 9781282158924, 9786612158926, 1400828015, 1282158929, 6612158921
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Introduction
Varieties of secularism
Secularism and Islam
Contested secularisms in Turkey and Iran
The European Union and Turkey
The United States and Iran
Political Islam
Religious resurgence
Conclusion
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English