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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón, David Hernández Martínez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Extremism, Clubs, and Civil Liberties: A Model of Religious Populations [PDF]

This paper extends the club model of religion to better account for observed patterns of extremism. We adapt existing models to a multi-agent framework and analyze the distribution of agents and clubs.
Makowsky, Michael
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Extremism: Root Causes and Strategic Use in Conflicts [PDF]

This paper examines the interaction between root causes, domestic policy considerations and the use of extremism as a strategic tool in an external conflict.
Elie Appelbaum
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Partisan bias in a sorted party system: A problem of epistemic inequality

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Normative and empirical scholars typically treat partisans’ distrust of their political rivals as a product of individual cognitive biases. But even if bias is inevitable, it is parties’ coalition‐building and messaging strategies that determine who bias is directed toward.
Justin Pottle
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Freedom and Religious Extremism: Lessons from the Arab Spring

, 2012
On March 16, 2012, the Religious Freedom Project turned to the events of what has been labeled the "Arab Spring" and brought some of the nation’s premier scholars and policymakers to Georgetown in order to debate a critical question: What role, if any ...

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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Welfarist Consequentialist Case Against Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Empirical Failures, Normative Confusions, and the Primacy of Patient Care

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have defended the view that there should be no accommodation of conscientious objectors in health care. Numerous critics have advanced arguments designed to defeat this conclusion. We respond here to what we take to be the most serious of the criticisms directed at our analysis. We begin with two distinct consequentialist lines.
J. Savulescu, U. Schuklenk
wiley   +1 more source

"Russian world" – theological doctrine and religious ideology that ruin the humanity

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2015
The XXth century has provided numerous examples of different forms of religious extremism, in particular the Orthodox Christian extremism. XXIth century demonstrates an explosion of neo-pagan and Orthodox extremist views in Russia grounded on syncretic ...
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi, Liudmyla O. Fylypovych   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Caste hierarchies in India place children within a complex system of oppressor‐oppressed relationships that structurally reinforce practices of othering. This paper draws on research with children from privileged caste communities, raising critical consciousness of caste oppression in a primary school classroom in New Delhi, India.
Arushi Mathur
wiley   +1 more source