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020			_a9780472132539 (hbk.) _cGBP60.00
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100			_aWOLFF Sarah _eauthor
245			_aSecular power Europe and Islam: _bidentity and foreign policy/ _cby Sarah Wolff
260			_aAnn Arbor, Michigan: _bUniversity of Michigan Press, _c2021
300			_ax, 185 pages; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliograpical references and index.
520			_aSecular Power Europe and Islam argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe’s secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, author Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU’s existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. Through three case studies, Wolff encourages the reader to unpack secularism as a bedrock principle of IR and diplomacy. This book argues that the EU’s interest and diplomacy activities in relation to religion, and to Islam specifically, is shaped by the insistence on a European secular identity, which should be reconsidered in areas of religion and foreign policy.
650			_aRELIGION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS _zEUROPE
650			_aSECULARISM _zEUROPE
650			_aDIPLOMACY
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