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FRIDE: POLITICAL
ISLAM AND EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY: BY MICHAEL EMERSON, RICHARD YOUNGS 17/12/2007
(MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 17
December 2007 -
Madrid
–
The time is ripe for the European Union, its
institutions and member states to undertake an explicit review of its current
policy of "benign neglect" towards the broad collection of
"Muslim democrat" parties in the Mediterranean Arab states.
The
group of experts assembled to produce this new book adduces mounting evidence
that this policy may lead to unintended consequences, such as the reinforcement
of anti-democratic regimes and radical Islamism.
Their
arguments favour a broad inclusion of Muslim democrats in EU initiatives aiming
at the reform of governance and the development of civil society, without
extending to them any singular, exclusive or unsolicited privileges.
Contributors
include Michael Emerson and Richard Youngs (eds), Samir Amghar, Talal Atrissi,
Senem Aydin, Amel Boubekeur, Ruşen Çakır, Salah Eddine Jorshi, Salam
Kawakibi, Emad El-Din Shahin, Robert Springborg and Nathalie Tocci.
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Bio
author: Michael Emerson
Michael
Emerson is Associate Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for European Policy
Studies (CEPS) since 1998, and program director for Wider Europe; he
participated in successive projects on the Balkans, Caucasus, Russia, Ukraine,
Turkey, Cyprus, Middle East, conflict resolution, democracy promotion, Europe's
strategic security, political Islam and the crisis of multi-culturalism within
the EU.
Bio
author: Richard Youngs
Richard
Youngs is Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Democratisation
programme at FRIDE. He also lectures at the University of Warwick in the UK. He
studied at Cambridge (BA Hons) and Warwick (MA, PhD) universities.
FRIDE
(Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior)
is a European think-tank based in Madrid that seeks to influence the policies
and actions of state and non-state actors in Europe and elsewhere, with regards
to peace and security, democratisation and human rights, and development and
humanitarian action, through applied research and informed debate based on the
values of justice and equality.
Labels: FRIDE,
Political Islam,
European
Foreign Policy, Fundación
para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior,
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