Islamists and the Global Order

Hanna Pfeifer is Professor of Political Science with a focus on Radicalisation and Violence Research at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). At PRIF, she also serves as the head of the research group on terrorism. Her research is centred on the dynamics of violent and non-violent politics of ordering, particularly in the context of interactions between state and non-state entities in West Asia and North Africa. Additionally, her expertise extends to German foreign and security policy. Her scholarly contributions have been featured, among others, in Civil Wars, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Foreign Policy Analysis, German Politics and Politics and Religion. She is co-editor (with Anna Geis and Maéva Clément) of the volume on Armed Non-state Actors and the Politics of Recognition (Manchester University Press, 2021).

Hanna Pfeifer’s book is a well-crafted, theoretically rich study on how statist Islamists perceive and frame the Western-dominated world order. Her core argument that both the Tunisian Ennahda and the Lebanese Hezballah primarily recognize rather than resist central principles of global order is highly innovative. This volume will certainly become an important reference work at the intersection of IR and Islamism studies in the years to come.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsSeries Editor’s ForewordIntroduction: Islamists and the Western-Dominated World Order – Deconstructing a Tale of Two EnemiesPART I ISLAMISTS IN A WORLD ORDER UNDER WESTERN HEGEMONY1 Setting the Scene: How Islamists Came to be Known as Rejectionists and Enemies of World Order2 A Discursive Understanding of World Order: Sovereignty, Legitimacy and TeloiPART II DISCURSIVE STRUGGLES OVER WORLD ORDER: TUNISIAN ENNAHDA AND LEBANESE HEZBOLLAH3 Ennahda and Hezbollah: Islamist Actors in the Context of the Arab Uprisings4 Sovereignty5 Legitimacy6 TeloiConclusion: Islamists as (World) Political Actors and Co-producers of Global OrderList of InterviewsBibliographyIndex