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Dar Al Islam

其他書名	The Mediterranean, the World System and the 'Wider Europe'
出版	SSRN, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pWzazwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋With the process of a wider Europe (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's ring of friends) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St. Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at a positive and cooperative relationship with the region. A successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace. World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems analysis, economics, integration theory, political science, theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of peace, cooperation, dialogue and stability in the framework of world center-periphery relationships. This collection of essays looks at the future of Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-Muslim relations in the framework of a wider Europe and in the framework of the capitalist world system. With the process of the east central European enlargement of the European Union, the relations of the European Union with the countries further east and south enter the main stage of the political debate. The very idea of a constructive, convergent relationship between a core area of the West - the European Union - and the Muslim world might be against the spirit of the time. Indeed, the Euro-Mediterranean relationship, if successful, might be a showcase to the world that not cultural warfare, but cooperation can be a model for the 21st Century. Contributors to Volume 1: Samir Amin, Pat Cox, Andre Gunder Frank, Johan Galtung, Peter Herrmann, Victor Krassilchtchikov, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Clara Mira Salama, Arno Tausch, Alfred Tovias, and Patrick Ziltener. Contributors to Volume 2: Syed M. Ahsan, Gernot Köhler, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Hans-Heinrich Nolte, John R. Oneal, Kunibert Raffer, Bruce Russett, David Skidmore, Arno Tausch, The First Declaration of Alexandria, and Patrick Ziltener.