Teologie politiche islamiche. Casi e frammenti contemporanei

Questo volume raccoglie i contributi di studiosi di ambito internazionale che prendono in esame aspetti poco noti o apparentemente marginali della teologia politica islamica contemporanea, come il dibattito filosofico in Iran, le correnti teopolitiche indonesiane (il paese al mondo con il maggior numero di musulmani), aspetti millenaristi dell\u2019islamismo militante, mutazioni del misticismo islamico di fronte alla modernit\ue0. Il panorama composito che ne risulta fa balenare la natura profonda delle idee e delle correnti che agitano, inquietano e pacificano il mondo islamico, il mondo

Security and secularization in international relations

What is the relationship between security and secularization in International Relations? The widespread acceptance of secularism as the paradigmatic framework that underlies the study of world politics has left this question largely unexplored. Yet, the recent challenges to the secularization thesis and the growing attention that is being devoted to questions of religion and secularism in international politics increasingly suggest the importance of undertaking this investigation. This article takes up this task in three main steps. First, it will explore how the limits of a widely accepted but nonetheless problematic account of the emergence of the modern Westphalian nation-state contribute to a dominant underlying assumption in security studies that implicitly associates security with secularization. Second, it will articulate a competing genealogy of security and secularization which suggests that rather than solving the problem of religious insecurity, secularization makes the question of fear and the politics of exceptionalism central to the state-centric project of modernity and its related vision of security. Finally, the article will examine how these elements inform and, most of all, constrain attempts to move beyond the traditional state-centric framework of security. The focus will be on three such attempts: human security, the securitization theory and Ken Booth’s critical theory of securit