Islam, Radicalism, Democracy, and Global Trends in Southeast Asia

Islam and Democracy

Using the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices, Rowley and Smith (2009) found that countries with Muslim majorities enjoy less freedom and are less democratic than countries in which Muslims are a minority. Because the POLITY IV and Freedom House indices have been criticized on several grounds, I reinvestigate Rowley and Smith ́s finding using the new Democracy-Dictatorship data from Cheibub et a...

Islam in an Era of Nation-States POLITICS AND RELIGIOUS RENEWAL IN MUSLIM SOUTHEAST ASIA

Major Trends Affecting Families – East and Southeast Asia

kurdish diaspora in central asia and caoucasus

در طول دو قرن گذشته و ظهور روسیه بعنوان قدرتی بزرگ در عرصه جهانی و شروع رقابت با سایر قدرت های بین المللی و منطقهای خصوصا با ایران و عثمانی این ئکشور تلاش کرده است تاد از جمعیت کردها در این کشورها در راستای منافع خود بهره برداری کند در قرون 18 و 19 بارها بخشی از کردها برعلیه امپراطوری عثمانی توسط این کشور مورد استفاده قرار گرفت خصوصا در جنگ های سال 1790تا 1798. این ججنگ ها م.جب شد که بخشی از کر...

The Dialectic of “Good Governance” and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Globalized Discourses and Local Responses

When it became clear that Southeast Asian developmentalist dictatorships were no longer developing economically during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, the global discourse of good governance suddenly threatened their hold on power. Long praised by the doyens of international finance for their developmental successes despite massive human rights violations, the authoritarian regimes of th...