Dar al Islam--the Mediterranean, the world system, and the wider Europe : the "cultural enlargement" of the EU and Europe's identity / Peter Herrmann and Arno Tausch, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herrmann, Peter, 1955- editor.

Tausch, Arno, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

European Union--Membership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2005]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-305) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Herrmann, Peter Dar Al Islam. the Mediterranean, the World System and the Wider Europe: the Cultural Enlargement of the EU and Europe's Identity

ISBN:

9781685075156