The article deals with the selected global phenomena of democracy as redefined at the end of the ... more The article deals with the selected global phenomena of democracy as redefined at the end of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, and focuses on Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s vision of a democratic state rooted in Islamic tradition. The author refers to Samuel Huntington’s concept of Democracy’s Third Wave and to the survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in the Middle East following the Arab Spring, which generally confirms the demands for democracy in the whole region. He also re-reads the work of Francis Fukuyama "The End of History" in the light of political and social transformations that have occurred in various places around the globe during the last 30 years and puts forward a thesis based on the concept of the "long duration" as proposed by the French Annales school of historical writing that there is no one universally approved model of democracy that could be implemented in every country. Nevertheless, the author makes a reference...
The Republic of India, as probably the most culturally and religiously diverse country in the wor... more The Republic of India, as probably the most culturally and religiously diverse country in the world, has built a very unique socio-political system which is based on cross-cultural compromises between various communities. The ideological foundations of secularism and socialist development were implemented by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. For almost half a century, they symbolised the identity of the state and constituted the essential elements of every official narrative by the Indian National Congress. Nehru was also the maker of India’s main foreign policy vectors, which were generally approved by subsequent governments. Although the ideology of socialist development was eventually replaced with a free market economy, the concept of secularism remained relevant in the public sphere. The author presents the gradual process of socio-economic transformation and describes the international context of building the image of the country in the 20th century. With the Bharatiya Janata...
The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 2017
The Indian subcontinent is home to nearly half a billion Muslims, or around a third of all follow... more The Indian subcontinent is home to nearly half a billion Muslims, or around a third of all followers of Islam globally. In India, their number is estimated at 180 million, or just above 14% of the country's total population,1 which makes them the world's largest religious minority. Their relations with India's Hindu majority largely determine social stability and cultural coherence (or lack of it) in the country, and is greatly influenced by the shared history of both communities. This history, with its symbolic elements, has been and continues to be used to devise more or less radical ideologies and push specific agendas in central and regional politics. Periods of relatively peaceful coexistence were interrupted by bloody conflicts, and memories of them affect the political identity of both Hindus and Muslims-if not the whole respective communities, then at least their most politically active representatives. The two-way tensions, while tending to be eased by the secul...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture New Series, 2021
The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporar... more The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena of ideological, historical, cultural and political contexts of radicalisation processes, investigate the distribution of radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around the world and analyse the consequences of ideological transformation of Islamic fundamentalism in selected European countries. The authors conclude that radicalisation propaganda has a global appeal due to the fact it has adopted a carefully selected group of globally recognised ideologues (Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abul A’la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb), but the recommended de-radicalisation processes should be rooted locally or regionally. The article proposes a constructive theoretical framework, a working hypothesis that should be constantly revised and modified in the changing socio-political environment.
Abstract: The article deals with the complex process of creating a country image, both at home an... more Abstract: The article deals with the complex process of creating a country image, both at home and abroad. It consists of two parts, being interrelated with each other, however not in a direct way. In part one the focus is laid on the image of India created by Indians themselves, which is partly a result of the grand economic transformation initiated in the beginning of the 1990s, and partly a heritage of much older cultural and political tradition. In part two the case of India's changing image in Poland is analyzed, viz. the case of a country, which unlike other European states, never ventured to establish its own political presence overseas, but nevertheless it was able to build a complex structure of various images of the civilization it hardly had any direct political contact with.Keywords: India, Poland, history, country images.The main objective of my article is to demonstrate the complex process of creating a country image. It consists of two parts, being interrelated wi...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 13, 2021
The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporar... more The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena of ideological, historical, cultural and political contexts of radicalisation processes, investigate the distribution of radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around the world and analyse the consequences of ideological transformation of Islamic fundamentalism in selected European countries. The authors conclude that radicalisation propaganda has a global appeal due to the fact it has adopted a carefully selected group of globally recognised ideologues (Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abul A'la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb), but the recommended de-radicalisation processes should be rooted locally or regionally. The article proposes a constructive theoretical framework, a working hypothesis that should be constantly revised and modified in the changing socio-political environment.
The article deals with the selected global phenomena of democracy as redefined at the end of the ... more The article deals with the selected global phenomena of democracy as redefined at the end of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century, and focuses on Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s vision of a democratic state rooted in Islamic tradition. The author refers to Samuel Huntington’s concept of Democracy’s Third Wave and to the survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in the Middle East following the Arab Spring, which generally confirms the demands for democracy in the whole region. He also re-reads the work of Francis Fukuyama "The End of History" in the light of political and social transformations that have occurred in various places around the globe during the last 30 years and puts forward a thesis based on the concept of the "long duration" as proposed by the French Annales school of historical writing that there is no one universally approved model of democracy that could be implemented in every country. Nevertheless, the author makes a reference...
The Republic of India, as probably the most culturally and religiously diverse country in the wor... more The Republic of India, as probably the most culturally and religiously diverse country in the world, has built a very unique socio-political system which is based on cross-cultural compromises between various communities. The ideological foundations of secularism and socialist development were implemented by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. For almost half a century, they symbolised the identity of the state and constituted the essential elements of every official narrative by the Indian National Congress. Nehru was also the maker of India’s main foreign policy vectors, which were generally approved by subsequent governments. Although the ideology of socialist development was eventually replaced with a free market economy, the concept of secularism remained relevant in the public sphere. The author presents the gradual process of socio-economic transformation and describes the international context of building the image of the country in the 20th century. With the Bharatiya Janata...
The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 2017
The Indian subcontinent is home to nearly half a billion Muslims, or around a third of all follow... more The Indian subcontinent is home to nearly half a billion Muslims, or around a third of all followers of Islam globally. In India, their number is estimated at 180 million, or just above 14% of the country's total population,1 which makes them the world's largest religious minority. Their relations with India's Hindu majority largely determine social stability and cultural coherence (or lack of it) in the country, and is greatly influenced by the shared history of both communities. This history, with its symbolic elements, has been and continues to be used to devise more or less radical ideologies and push specific agendas in central and regional politics. Periods of relatively peaceful coexistence were interrupted by bloody conflicts, and memories of them affect the political identity of both Hindus and Muslims-if not the whole respective communities, then at least their most politically active representatives. The two-way tensions, while tending to be eased by the secul...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture New Series, 2021
The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporar... more The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena of ideological, historical, cultural and political contexts of radicalisation processes, investigate the distribution of radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around the world and analyse the consequences of ideological transformation of Islamic fundamentalism in selected European countries. The authors conclude that radicalisation propaganda has a global appeal due to the fact it has adopted a carefully selected group of globally recognised ideologues (Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abul A’la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb), but the recommended de-radicalisation processes should be rooted locally or regionally. The article proposes a constructive theoretical framework, a working hypothesis that should be constantly revised and modified in the changing socio-political environment.
Abstract: The article deals with the complex process of creating a country image, both at home an... more Abstract: The article deals with the complex process of creating a country image, both at home and abroad. It consists of two parts, being interrelated with each other, however not in a direct way. In part one the focus is laid on the image of India created by Indians themselves, which is partly a result of the grand economic transformation initiated in the beginning of the 1990s, and partly a heritage of much older cultural and political tradition. In part two the case of India's changing image in Poland is analyzed, viz. the case of a country, which unlike other European states, never ventured to establish its own political presence overseas, but nevertheless it was able to build a complex structure of various images of the civilization it hardly had any direct political contact with.Keywords: India, Poland, history, country images.The main objective of my article is to demonstrate the complex process of creating a country image. It consists of two parts, being interrelated wi...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture. New Series 13, 2021
The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporar... more The article discusses the issues of religious radicalisation and de-radicalisation in contemporary Islam. Its authors present complex phenomena of ideological, historical, cultural and political contexts of radicalisation processes, investigate the distribution of radical propagandist materials among various Muslim communities around the world and analyse the consequences of ideological transformation of Islamic fundamentalism in selected European countries. The authors conclude that radicalisation propaganda has a global appeal due to the fact it has adopted a carefully selected group of globally recognised ideologues (Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Abul A'la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb), but the recommended de-radicalisation processes should be rooted locally or regionally. The article proposes a constructive theoretical framework, a working hypothesis that should be constantly revised and modified in the changing socio-political environment.
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