“TURBULENCE: ISLAMIC FACTOR IN US FOREIGN POLICY”

Please join the REEES for a talk and discussion of the book “Turbulence: Islamic Factor in US Foreign Policy” (UWED Publishers, 2014) by Zabikhulla S. Saipov, an academic and former diplomat of Uzbekistan currently on a sabbatical post-doctoral stay at the REEES, moderated by Professor Thomas Kruessmann, Director of Russian Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Center University of Graz.

“Turbulence: Islamic Factor in US Foreign Policy” is the result of Dr. Saipov’s several years of research and determination to bring a fresh air to the root causes of turbulent relations of the United States with the countries of the Muslim world. In his monograph the author puts forward an insightful conceptual framework prevalent among US academia, official and policy circles towards evolving realities of state and non-actors of the Muslim world, cycles of projected changes that could engulf the wider region. He pinpoints to Washington’s Islamist dilemma, its long term strategic approaches towards Islam, Muslims and the countries of the Muslim world. The event will be of particular interest to students of political science, analysts of US foreign policy, area studies, grand strategy, international security and world order as alarming developments rapidly unfold in the heart of Greater Middle East and reverberate beyond. The author suggests that Washington’s and Islamists increasing normative reading of sacred scriptures while both intend to reconfigure their own versions of world order would potentially contribute to the fragmentation of all the landmasses where Islam is practiced and propagated.