Robert R Bianchi
Robert R. Bianchi is a political scientist, an international lawyer, and an authority on the Islamic world and China. He earned his doctorate and law degrees at the University of Chicago where he later joined the faculties of the Political Science Department and the Law School.
He has also held professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, the American University in Cairo, Qatar University, the Johns-Hopkins Nanjing Center, the National University of Singapore, and the Shanghai International Studies University. He founded new graduate programs for International Political Economy in Egypt and for International Law in China. In Singapore, he helped launch a research institute for Middle East studies and, in Chicago, he taught the Law School’s first courses on international law dealing with the contemporary Islamic world and China. As a practicing attorney and political consultant, he has advised the World Bank, numerous U.S. government agencies, and several foreign governments.
Bianchi is a former Peace Corps volunteer, a three-time Fulbright grantee, and a recipient of the Albert Hourani Book Prize for Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press, 2004). His most recent book is China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019). His other books include Islamic Globalization: Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, and Diplomacy (World Scientific Publishers, 2013), Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt (Oxford University Press, 1989), and Interest Groups and Political Development in Turkey (Princeton University Press, 1984). Several of Bianchi’s books and essays have been published in foreign languages including Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Turkish, and French.
He has also held professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, the American University in Cairo, Qatar University, the Johns-Hopkins Nanjing Center, the National University of Singapore, and the Shanghai International Studies University. He founded new graduate programs for International Political Economy in Egypt and for International Law in China. In Singapore, he helped launch a research institute for Middle East studies and, in Chicago, he taught the Law School’s first courses on international law dealing with the contemporary Islamic world and China. As a practicing attorney and political consultant, he has advised the World Bank, numerous U.S. government agencies, and several foreign governments.
Bianchi is a former Peace Corps volunteer, a three-time Fulbright grantee, and a recipient of the Albert Hourani Book Prize for Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press, 2004). His most recent book is China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics (Oxford University Press, 2019). His other books include Islamic Globalization: Pilgrimage, Capitalism, Democracy, and Diplomacy (World Scientific Publishers, 2013), Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt (Oxford University Press, 1989), and Interest Groups and Political Development in Turkey (Princeton University Press, 1984). Several of Bianchi’s books and essays have been published in foreign languages including Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Turkish, and French.
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China's New Silk Road by Robert R Bianchi
This book addresses how China’s leaders and citizens—in their relationships with Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesian, Iran, Nigeria and Egypt—are learning that they have to respect and adjust to the aspirations of ordinary people throughout the Islamic world, not just cater to the narrow band of government and business elites.
In addition, it is becoming increasingly clear that turbulent countries along the New Silk Road are likely to transform Chinese society at least as much as China is changing them. This is a deeply unsettling realization for China’s authoritarian rulers who desperately want to monopolize power domestically. The party and state bosses have responded with a contradictory blend of flexibility abroad and rigidity at home—compromising with popular demands in one country after another while refusing to negotiate many of the same issues with their own citizens. Maintaining such a split-minded statecraft will become ever more difficult as people in China and across the New Silk Road share their aspirations and grievances in wider networks.
China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics
Bianchi, Robert R. Oxford, 2019
304p, 9780190915285, $29.95
A political scientist and an international lawyer who has lived and worked in China and in the Islamic world for nearly two decades, Bianchi examines the potentials and the problems as both emerge as influential actors in a forthcoming international order. Bianchi captures the dynamics of these relationships in the phrase "The New Silk Road Initiative" and sees both participating societies as having crucial mutual effect on the other. These effects will present significant challenges to the domestic orders as well as the transnational ones. He devotes separate chapters to Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, and Egypt to illustrate particular issues and to assess Islamic interaction with China on the world stage. In a clearly written account for a general, educated audience, Bianchi depicts the forces at play in globalization among non-Western world regions. The book belongs in most academic and many public libraries and is highly recommended.
--J. A. Rhodes, emeritus, Luther College
Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
This book addresses how China’s leaders and citizens—in their relationships with Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesian, Iran, Nigeria and Egypt—are learning that they have to respect and adjust to the aspirations of ordinary people throughout the Islamic world, not just cater to the narrow band of government and business elites.
In addition, it is becoming increasingly clear that turbulent countries along the New Silk Road are likely to transform Chinese society at least as much as China is changing them. This is a deeply unsettling realization for China’s authoritarian rulers who desperately want to monopolize power domestically. The party and state bosses have responded with a contradictory blend of flexibility abroad and rigidity at home—compromising with popular demands in one country after another while refusing to negotiate many of the same issues with their own citizens. Maintaining such a split-minded statecraft will become ever more difficult as people in China and across the New Silk Road share their aspirations and grievances in wider networks.
China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road is Transforming Global Politics
Bianchi, Robert R. Oxford, 2019
304p, 9780190915285, $29.95
A political scientist and an international lawyer who has lived and worked in China and in the Islamic world for nearly two decades, Bianchi examines the potentials and the problems as both emerge as influential actors in a forthcoming international order. Bianchi captures the dynamics of these relationships in the phrase "The New Silk Road Initiative" and sees both participating societies as having crucial mutual effect on the other. These effects will present significant challenges to the domestic orders as well as the transnational ones. He devotes separate chapters to Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria, and Egypt to illustrate particular issues and to assess Islamic interaction with China on the world stage. In a clearly written account for a general, educated audience, Bianchi depicts the forces at play in globalization among non-Western world regions. The book belongs in most academic and many public libraries and is highly recommended.
--J. A. Rhodes, emeritus, Luther College
Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
لـِ روبرت بيانكي
عن: مكتبة العبيكان ٢٠٠٧
رقم الايداع : 9789960543529
الطبعة : 1
التصنيفات : أديان ومذاهب
في كل عام يجتمع في مكة المكرمة ما يزيد على مليوني حاج، وافدين من شتى أصقاع الأرض، ليؤدوا مناسك الحج، ولتجدد ذلك الحدث الشعائري المثير الذي ما برح المسلمون يؤدونه منذ قرون ولا غرو فالحج من أهم الواجبات في الحياة المسلم، بل انه ركن من أركان الإسلام، ذو أثر عميق في السياسة الدولية يتنامى عاماً بعد عام. ومع ذلك لا يكاد الغربيون يدركون من أمره شيئاً. ما الحج إذن! ومن هم الحجاج! وماذا يفعلون ويقولون في مكة! وكيف يفسرون مناسكهم ومن هم اللذين يريدون الحج وما مقاصده السياسية وكيف يسهم الحج في تشجيع روح التعاون الدولي بين المسلمين وهل من شانه أن يعزز مظاهر الانسجام والتوافق بين الإسلام والغرب. في كتاب ضيوف الرحمن يتلمس روبرت بيانك إجابات عن هذه الأسئلة وغيرها. ومع أن الحج شعيرة دينية في المقام الأول، إلا انه حدث سياسي كذلك إلى حد بعيد .وفي هذا السياق، قامت منظمة المؤتمر الإسلامي –الرائدة في العالم الإسلامي– بأحداث أول نظام دولي يقف جهوده على شؤون الحج وقد أوجدت كل دولة مسلمة كبرى لنفسها سياسة شاملة ترعى شؤون الحج، ونظاماً مكتبياً لإمضاء تلك السياسة، وبالرغم من ذلك فليس ثمة سلطة علمانية كانت أو دينية، وطنية أم دولية –قادرة فعلاً على التحكم في قضية الحج كما يرى المؤلف- فالحجاج يعتقدون بأن لهم حق القدوم إلى مكة المكرمة بصفتهم "ضيوفاً للرحمن" لا ضيوفاً لدولة أو مؤسسة قد تميل إلى تقييد مساعيهم لأداء واجب ديني أساسي، أو تحقيق أي كسب مادي منها. وقد خرج بيانكي، مما استمده من تجربته الشخصية بصفته حاجاً، ومما اجتمع لديه من معلومات نفيسة على مدي سنوات عشر من البحث، برؤية نيرة، فياضة بأفكار صريحة لشخصيات سياسية ودينية مرموقة، وحجاج من مختلف المشارب والمراتب الاجتماعية. إن كتاب ضيوف الرحمن دراسة شاملة في الإسلام والسياسة والسلطة، وتجسيد لأكمل صورة منشورة عن الحج حتى اليوم
کتاب مهمانان خدا: زیارت و سیاست در جهان اسلام به بررسی برخی از ابعاد حج از منظر دکتر رابرت بیانکی یکی از اساتید بین المللی در حوزه علوم سیاسی و روابط بین الملل می پردازد
به گزارش خبرگزاری شبستان، کتاب مهمانان خدا: زیارت و سیاست در جهان اسلام به بررسی برخی از ابعاد حج از منظر دکتر رابرت بیانکی، یکی از اساتید بین المللی در حوزه علوم سیاسی و روابط بین الملل می پردازد
نویسنده با مسافرت به کشورهای اسلامی و دیدار با مسئولان حج و مطالعات عمیق درباره تاریخ این کشورها، اطلاعاتی مفید در برابر محققان قرار می دهد
نده نویسنده کتاب مهمانان خدا: زیارت و سیاست در جهان اسلام، دکتر رابرت بیانچی (بیانکی)، دانشمند علوم سیاسی، وکیل حقوق بینالملل و اقتصاد سیاسی در چین و جهان اسلام، و مشاور چندین سازمان دولتی و مؤسسه اقتصادی بینالمللی است. وی در دانشگاههای شیکاگو، نانجینگ چین، قطر، پنسیلوانیا و دانشگاه آمریکایی قاهره تدریس میکند
کتابهای قبلی دکتر رابرت بیانچی (بیانکی) عبارتاند از: جهانی شدن اسلامی: حج، سرمایهداری، دموکراسی، و دیپلماسی
انتشارات ۲۰۱۳
World Scientific Publishers
مهمانان خدا: حج و سیاست در جهان اسلام (انتشارات دانشگاه آکسفورد، ۲۰۰۴
سرکش اصناف: حیات ارتباطی مصر در قرن بیستم
انتشارات دانشگاه آکسفورد، ۱۹۸۹
و گروههای ذینفع و توسعه سیاسی در ترکیه
انتشارات دانشگاه پرینستون، ۱۹۸۴
دکتر بیانکی به سبب علاقه اش به حج، با مسافرت به کشورهای اسلامی و دیدار با مسؤلان حج و مطالعات عمیق درباره تاریخ این کشورها، تلاش کرده پژوهشی علمی در این باره انجام دهد
مسیر راههای حجاج و نیز تعداد حجاج کشورهای مسلمان و مراسم و آیینهای مرتبط با زائران، و نیز سیاست کشورهای مسلمان، درباره شهروندان خود، از جمله ویژگیهایی است که رابرت آر بیانچی، در کتاب
مهمانان خدا: زیارت و سیاست در جهان اسلام
مورد تحلیل و بررسی قرار گرفته است
کتاب مهمانان خدا: زیارت و سیاست در جهان اسلام
نوشته رابرت آر. بیانکی با ترجمه محمدرضا حضور بخش که در گروه تاریخ و
سیره پژوهشکده حج و زیارت تهیه شده، در آذر ماه ۱۳۹۷ در ۴۸۰ صفحه و در قطع وزیری توسط نشر مشعر منتشر شد
پایان پیام/49
My personal encounters with the Middle East were shaped by an early education that was eclectic and haphazard-a formation inspired by John Dewey and Robert Maynard Hutchins that encouraged experience over specialization and that instilled skepticism of received knowledge. Such environments breed spirits that are ill at ease in hierarchies and settled institutions, including universities, which tend to stifle as much as they stimulate. Fortunately, I learned to adapt. In time, I came to think of campuses as space stations-low-flying orbiters tethered to Mother Earth, but also launching pads for regular travel to distant stars. Initially, the star systems I explored were Turkey, followed by Egypt and the Arab world, and, then, the wondrous galaxy of Islamdom. Gradually, I managed to combine longer distances with perspectives from related disciplines-international law, world history, and complexity theory. In quick succession, my work took me to China, Qatar, Singapore, and back to China just as the New Silk Road began winding its way across Eurasia and Africa, traversing all of the lands I had lived in earlier.
The Court’s critics complain that judicial intervention is no cure for failed diplomacy. As a general principle, that is probably correct. But, in this instance, the ICJ was right to force the world to rethink an intractable conflict with hidden dangers that must not be underestimated. The line between genocide and war crimes can be invisible both legally and morally. Israeli officials have no consistent explanation of their intentions—they support killing in self-defense, killing for the sake of killing, killing for land, and killing for land without people. In the face of that ambiguity, the Court felt compelled to recognize plausible grounds for genocide. The alternatives would have meant turning a blind eye or passing the buck, effectively inviting the killing to feed on its own momentum.
The Gaza war still has a long way to go and the Court’s influence is likely to diminish as the fighting spreads. As the war mutates into a regional—and perhaps a global conflict—the ICJ’s voice becomes more important than ever. Unfortunately, it may be inaudible exactly when it’s needed most.