Author: Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Nassef is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network), and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network). He works on interdisciplinary research between Islam and International Relations and explores the Bangsamoro society as he heads the Policy Research and Legal Services (PRLS) of the Bangsamoro Parliament. Visit https://nassef.info/ for more details.

Book review: Islam in international relations. Politics and paradigms

Alice Martini (2019) Islam in international relations. Politics and paradigms, Critical Studies on Terrorism, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2019.1629726

The relationship between Islam and International Relations has always been a complicated one, but Islam and the Islamic “civilisation” have consistently been objects of interest for the discipline. Nevertheless, the role Islamic theoretical understandings of politics could have in IR is still understudied. Islam in International Relations is a series of works that addresses just this lack. Through it, the editors aim at diversifying the discipline from a specific post-colonial point of view, engaging with International Relations from an “Islamic” approach – broadly defined “as a history, a people, a religion, an intellectual tradition, and the like”. These collective works’ goal is to “offer an expanded and enriched IR that accounts for the diversity of worldviews and perspectives on world affairs”

 

The Evolution of the Muslim State

The Muslim State in a World of Nation-States
by Nassef Manabilang Adiong

The First International Islamic Governance Symposium: 
The Evolution of the Muslim State
September 21-22, 2019
Senate Room, Chancellor Hall, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
https://islamicgovernance.org/iigs/

IIGS 2019 - Poster

The Evolution of the Muslim State

The Muslim State in a World of Nation-States
by Nassef Manabilang Adiong

The First International Islamic Governance Symposium:
The Evolution of the Muslim State
September 21-22, 2019
Senate Room, Chancellor Hall, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
https://islamicgovernance.org/iigs/

Reminder: “The Unseen IR: Islam and the Study of the ‘International’”

Call for papers and panel proposals for the Co-IRIS section at the 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations.

Section 44: “The Unseen IR: Islam and the Study of the ‘International’“

Islam has played a major role in world affairs since its inception. Today, the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation represents the second largest inter-governmental organisation of sates after the UN. A number of Muslim majority countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Turkey under the AKP, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Malaysia: all claim to follow an Islamic approach to their domestic and foreign policy. Islam as an intellectual force, has received little sustained attention in the fields of Political Science and International Relations specifically. This Section aims to address the nature and goals of international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy from multiple Islamic perspectives. Those perspectives challenge and contribute to international practices and they represent their respective perceptions of the ‘International. The section is an effort to include Islamic civilization and Muslim majority countries in the contemporary international platform and the analysis of the “unseen” in the study of International Relations.

We welcome both individual papers as well as full panel submissions. Proposed panel themes include but are not limited to:
– The seen and unseen in Islamic International Relations Theory
– Islam and international relations
– Islam and Foreign Policy Analysis
– Islam and Diplomacy
– The visual in the international relations of Islamic countries

Deadline for submissions is 28 February 2019. Abstract are to be submitted electronically via the online submission system here, https://www.czech-in.org/cmportalV15/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FcmportalV15%2Fportal%2FPEC19%2Fnormal.

Please, read the Abstract Submission Guidelines prior to making your submission and visit the official EISA PEC 2019 website and the official Co-IRIS website for further updates. Do not hesitate to contact us or the conference organizers with any questions you may have.