Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East

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ISBN-13: 9788772886916
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1997
Pages: 608

	Preface	11
	Introduction and General Survey
	National or Religious Identification seen in a Local and Global Perspective	14
	Universal Human Rights, Particular Cultural Rights and Peaceful Co-existence. Models for Conflicts and their Solution in the Middle East	18
	The New Map of the Middle East	36
	Rushdie, Fundamentalism and Politics	61
	The Mosque and Fear of Fundamentalism	71
	History as Mythos: On the Question of Religious Language and Historiography in Middle Eastern Politics	77
	The Muslim Woman - A Battlefield	82
	The Significance of Oil in the Middle East and North Africa	96
	To Get More Out of Less. Managing the Water Resources for Sustained Agricultural Production	103
	The Challenge and Predicament of Human Rights Violations in the Mediterranean Context	120
	Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict	130
	Created by the Enemy: Enemy Images as Nation Builders in Israel	141
	Religion - Legitimizing the National Dream	165
	Two Movements of National Liberation - in Conflict or Peace Making?	175
	The Middle East Between Agony and Progress: Building a New Palestine	183
	The Transformation of Palestinian Civil Society and Its Role in Developing Democratic Trends in the West Bank and Gaza Strip	195
	The Peace Process in the Middle East Explanations and Future Prospects	208
	Israel and the Peace Process	216
	Iranian Fundamentalism - A Threat to the World	224
	The Significance of Religion: Islam and Modernity	238
	The Alawites' Rise to Power in Syria	250
	Nationalism and Geo-Political Circumstances: The Kurdish Problem as an Example	267
	The Politics of Genocide: From Iraqi Counter-Insurgency to Ethnic Cleansing of Kurdish Areas	276
	An Historical Account of Identity Formation in Turkey: The Impact of Nomadism	294
	The Assyrian Community in Turkey	323
	The Construction of the Turkish Republic and Citizenship	341
	Turkey and the Middle East	347
	Republican Citizenship Facing the Challenge of Identity	356
	An Imaginative Approach to the Problem of Turkey's Security in the 21st Century	367
	The Reality of Turkey	380
	Political Islam - An Anomaly of Liberal Democracy?	394
	Turkish Media After the 1980s	401
	Turkey in a State of Fear	417
	Water Disputes and Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: The Case of the Kurds	424
	Alevis in Turkey and Europe	434
	The Reconstitution of History and Continuous History	438
	The Alevis and Politics in Turkey	449
	The Kurdish Question - its History and Present Situation	462
	The Kurdish Demographic Revolution and its Socio-Political Implications	473
	Thoughts on the State and Kurdish Identity in Turkey	489
	The Kurdish Question on the Basis of the North-South Contradiction	500
	The Separation of the Kurdish People and Their National Struggle	513
	The Perspectives of the Kurdish Movement in Light of the Oil Strategies of the 21st Century	520
	Societal Security: A Solution to the Kurdish Problems?	532
	Appendix	553
	List of Contributors	555
	Index	559

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