International Relations and Islam International Relations and Islam: Diverse Perspectives Edited by Nassef Manabilang Adiong International Relations and Islam: Diverse Perspectives, Edited by Nassef Manabilang Adiong This book first published 2013 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2013 by Nassef Manabilang Adiong and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-4896-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4896-1 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ........................................................................ vii Contributors ............................................................................................... ix Introduction ................................................................................................ 1 International Relations and Islam Nassef Manabilang Adiong Chapter One ................................................................................................ 9 Veil: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol Jessica L. Daniels Chapter Two ............................................................................................. 39 Turkey: Where East and West Meet Didem Doğanyılmaz Chapter Three ........................................................................................... 59 Islam and Democracy: Arab Spring and the Turkish Experience Gökhan Duman Chapter Four ............................................................................................. 73 Who is an Islamic Feminist and What Does He Look Like? Alessandra L. González Chapter Five ............................................................................................. 91 Ahmet Davutoğlu: Role as an Islamic Scholar Shaping Turkey’s Foreign Policy İştar Gözaydın Chapter Six ............................................................................................. 111 Islamic Identity Politics and European Polity Ari Varon vi Table of Contents Chapter Seven ......................................................................................... 139 Accommodating Islam into IR: The Case on “Nation-State” Nassef Manabilang Adiong Index ....................................................................................................... 145 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES NB. All figures and tables are from Chapter Four authored by Dr. Alessandra L. González Figure 4-1 Islam is a Source of Motivation for me to Fight for Women’s Rights (by Gender) Figure 4-2 I Consider Myself a Feminist (by Gender) Table 4-1 Male Islamic Feminist Descriptive Statistics Table 4-2 Binary Logistic Regression of Feminist ID on Demographics, Religiosity Measures, and Religious Socialization Variables (by Gender) Table 4-3 Principle Components Factor Analysis of Social and Political Attitudes by Gender (Varimax Rotation) CONTRIBUTORS Jessica L. Daniels holds a Masters Degree in Historical Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Inquiry, both earned at The New School of Social Research in New York. Her research has been primarily focused on The Middle East and Iran pre- revolution in particular. In June of 2012, Jessica relocated to Boston and hopes to find a career within International Relations. For now, she is writing, creating websites and teaching yoga. Jessica is available to be contacted at <[email protected]>. Didem Doğanyılmaz is currently a PhD candidate in Historical Societies at Rovira I Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain. She is also one of the project researchers in UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean. She completed her Masters degree in the same university in the department of Mediterranean Cultural Studies, while her Bachelor’s degree was from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul in the department of Statistics. Her main research interests are interrelationships between state and religion, laicism, secularism, and religious identity. She is interested in the complex relations between Islam and laicism concentrating on the history of Turkey. In addition, she focuses on Alevism, its history and a sociological approach to Alevi identity. You may contact her at <[email protected]>.