From revelation to revolution: Muhammad's deployment of strategic social construction in transforming the ideational structure of the Arabian political system - 570 AD
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Murray Angus Oliver
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Pentland, Charles
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Queen's University (Canada)
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
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126
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-11261-0
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M.A.
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Queen's University (Canada)
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2015
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There has been relatively little study of system change among scholars of international relations. Several academics have referred to the subject as the "evaded dimension" of IR. The reasons for the omission are complex but include a normative inclination to model stability during the dangerous years of the Cold War and the related preeminence of political realism as the primary theoretical lens of IR analysis. Much of the research work since the Second World War used a technically suitable but distinctly Westphalian template for examining the international system. This approach was perhaps useful for understanding contemporary western IR but may have provided a skewed data set from which scholars could investigate the dynamics of system change.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Middle Eastern history; Political science
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Social sciences;Islam;Muhammad;Social institutions;Strategic social construction;Umma