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This edited volume contributes to the existing literature on the relationship between the European Union (EU) and US, on the one hand, and political Islam on the other. This is done by providing a critique of how these two external actors are perceived in the cases of Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Albania, Palestine and among Lebanese and Palestinian women and Islamist democrats in the Arab world. The edited volume also provides an examination of US policy towards Islamists in the Middle East (Afghanistan and Iraq) as well as a conceptual discussion of the idea of democracy and the implications of this for democracy promotion by external actors. The case studies take the critique of the relationship between the EU and US and political Islam one step further and recommend strategies for engagement.
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Holliday, S. J. (2010) ‘Khatami’s Islamist-Iranian Discourse of National Identity: A Discourse of Resistance’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37(1), 1–13.
Pace, M. (2009) ‘Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean: The Limits of EU Normative Power’, Democratization, 16(1), 39–58.
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Holliday, S.J. (2011). Conclusion. In: Pace, M. (eds) Europe, the USA and Political Islam. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298156_10
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