A study of the attempts by the US and EU to develop meaningful political relations with Islamist movements in the Middle East and Balkans. The contributors draw on extensive research on Islamist parties and movements and Western policy towards them over the past decade.

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MICHELLE PACE, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. ALETTA NORVAL, Reader in Political Theory and Director of the Doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis in the Department of Government, University of Essex, UK AMR ABDULRAHMAN, PhD research candidate at the Department of Government at Essex University, UK EMEL AKÇALI, Assistant Professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University in Budapest, Hungary SHABNAM J. HOLLIDAY is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Plymouth, UK. MARIA HOLT, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Westminster, UK ABDELWAHAB EL-AFFENDI, Reader in Politics at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK ODETA BARBULLUSHI, Head of the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University of Tirana, Albania OZ HASSAN, Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK

Inhalt
The EU, US and Political Islam: Strategies for Engagement: an Introduction; M.Pace A Critical Analysis of EU Democracy Promotion: The Case of Egypt; A.Norval & A.Abdulrahman Consolidation of Democracy or Polarisation of Society? The impact of EUrope on Turkey; E.Akçali Democratization in Iran: A role for the EU?; S.J.Holliday Challenging Preconceptions: Women's Experiences of Islamic Resistance Movements in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories; M.Holt Democracy Promotion in the Context of an Occupied Nation? The Case of Palestine; M.Pace The Islamism Debate Revisited: In Search of 'Islamist Democrats'; A.El-Affendi The Politics of 'Religious Tolerance' in Post-Communist Albania: Ideology, Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration; O.Barbullushi America's Freedom Dilemma: National Interests and the Pursuit of Middle Eastern Democracy; O.Hassan Europe, the US and Political Islam: Strategies for Engagement: Conclusion; S.J.Holliday