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Contemporary Anti-Muslim Politics provides a succinct but potent critique of the foreign policies of Western nations toward majority Muslim nations. For decades, foreign policies that rely on exclusion, ghettoization, and war have triggered conflict escalation with majority Muslim nations and caused an increase in extremist activity.

"The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This new volume, Contemporary Patterns of Politics, Praxis, and Culture reflects major research focuses across religion, race, gender, culture, and of course, politics. Themes that engage a community of scholars also engage them in praxis as individual citizens and practitioners in a democratic society, and collectively as member-participants in a changing culture. Two themes, religion and culture are relatively new areas of intellectual curiosity for political scientists. Articles in this volume extend the beachheads already established by African-American political scientists in studies that guage the significance and influence of religion in both individual and group behavior. They chart religion's inevitable move onto the center stage of U.S. public affairs. The study of culture has essentially languished for almost a generation within political science, especially with regard to the study of American politics and society. During this time the emphasis has also shifted significantly from an almost exclusive focus on civic culture to an expanding focus on the broad expanse of popular culture in the contemporary period. Culture is the crucible within which politics, race, religion, and gender both foment and ferment, and artistic products of the culture are manifestations and mirrors of how we envision and construct a changing reality. Issues of race, religion, gender and culture are all dimensions of individual and group identity. The dynamics of changing individual and group identities change the underlying cultural canvas against which identity is displayed and politics is acted out. The concept of praxis is relatively new to the lexicon of political science. However, engagement in the practice of politics is not a new idea for African-American social scientists. Indeed, particularly for this group, and clearly for many others,"--Provided by publisher.

Morality and ethics are among the most influential factors affecting society's development throughout history. There is a slight difference between the terms ethics and morality. Ethics derives from mankind's experience throughout history and in actuality it represents the essence of the ethical rules and principles derived from the human understanding of the differentiation between good and evil. Whereas morality defers from this definition of ethics in the sense that morality has its origin in religion and theology. Morality in politics or the Moral politics has gradually succeeded in conquering the public scene. The contemporary world that we live in today is facing many challenges that have a moral auspice; humankind needs more answers. An adequate academic approach is needed and further public discussion entails. Societal involvement is crucial in any attempts of finding the most appropriate response to the challenges of the modern world encumbered by ethical and moral issues.

South Africa is a context within which Rosemarie Buikema has thought deeply and conducted much of her empirical research for her book Revolts in Critique. This contribution pursues some of the ways in which Buikema's scholarship resonates with contemporary South African currents of thinking towards justice goals, within the academy and in the larger post-apartheid South Africa. Buikema's work provides a valuable philosophical framework for thinking with art for change, particularly through her feminist postcolonial conceptualization of the 'poetics of recycling' which underlines the assertion that the articulation and/or the memory of trauma is not a linear process but a cycle that has to be reiterated, time and again in order to open up alternative imaginaries. I explore in particular the productive possibilities of this framework in thinking with current South African feminist decolonial and queer scholarship, art and activism that deploys imagination and creativity to disrupt the raced, classed, and gendered inequalities and violences that still characterise this local landscape.

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson investigate how capital reshapes its relation with politics, showing how contemporary capitalism operates through the extraction of mineral resources, data, and cultures; the logistical organization of relations between people, property, and objects; and the penetration of financialization into all realms of economic life

In einer politisch-soziologischen Tour d'Horizon beschreibt der Essay, wie aus gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen und Vorstellungen heraus deliberative Formate, wie etwa Planungszellen, Bürgerräte, Citizens Juries oder Deliberative Polls, sich verbreitet und etabliert haben. Sie sind damit zu einer dauerhaften Form politischer Repräsentation geworden. Während viele Beiträge zu diesem Wandel die Rolle der Institutionen und Repräsentationsdefizite in parlamentarischen Regierungssystemen thematisieren, liegt der Akzent des Arguments anders: In der politischen Gesellschaft haben sich die Vorstellungen davon verändert, wie Bürger:innen repräsentiert werden wollen. Deliberative Formate, deren Ausdifferenzierung und deren Verbreitung reagieren auf diese veränderten Bedarfe und Vorstellungen, also auf das Verlangen in der politischen Gesellschaft. Sie sind damit responsiv und weniger ein Ausdruck institutioneller Probleme.

Großvorhaben politischer Gesellschaftsgestaltung wie die "Energiewende" können Anlass für eine sehr grundsätzlich ansetzende sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Reflexion der Rolle des Staates in der Moderne sein. Auf dieser Linie werden für die Frage politischer Gesellschaftsgestaltung relevante Überlegungen aus der soziologischen Gesellschafts- und Sozialtheorie vorgestellt. Nach einer Erinnerung an die Nicht-Selbstverständlichkeit derart großangelegter politischer Gestaltungsambitionen werden mehrere einander überlagernde gravierende Limitationen politischer Gestaltbarkeit von Vorhaben dieses Maßstabs aufgeführt: Das Komplexitätsprofil des relevanten gesellschaftlichen Geschehens; die funktional differenzierte und kapitalistische Ordnung der modernen Gesellschaft; Legitimitätsbedarfe in demokratischen politischen Ordnungen; Nationalstaaten unter Globalisierungsdruck.

The "national interest" has proven to be a highly resilient concept, not only in terms of its malleability in the hands of foreign policymakers and various publics but also in terms of its ability to retain currency among several generations of international relations scholars despite repeated efforts to discredit it. There have been several attempts recently to rehabilitate the concept, including one by the Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy which recognized that repudiation of the term by academics did not absolve practitioners from their continuing responsibility to define it. However, the problem with recent attempts on the part of scholars as well as practitioners to reformulate the "national interest" is that they fail to take into account adequately the new realities of world politics which have tended to upset the normal calculus. If the identification of "national interests" has defied precise analysis in the past, it is an even more difficult task today.

"The objective of this article is to explore how political Sufism, in conjunction with political Shī'ism, influences contemporary Iranian internal and external affairs, the decision-making process, and the future political ideology. While religion has consistently been an integral part of Iranian state and culture, the primary faith has not always played a definitive role in political decisions throughout history, particularly in recent decades. To gain a deeper understanding of Iranian politics and its future trajectory, it is essential to comprehend the role of Sufi elements within it. This work elucidates the core political Sufi ideas and their persistence and development within Persian borders up to the present day, despite facing substantial opposition from the ulama. Furthermore, in order to identify these Sufi elements within the current Iranian political landscape, the article analyzes all presidential administrations since the Revolution and highlights how political Sufism has become ingrained in both the decision-making process and political propaganda. Key-words: Sufism, Iran, politics, Shī'ism, propaganda, eschatology"