Islam in Foreign Policy

A collection of case studies analysing the role and influence of Islam in foreign policies of states.

Contributors; Preface; 1. Islam in foreign policy: some methodological issues Adeed Dawisha; 2. Khumayni's Islam in Iran's foreign policy R. K. Ramazani; 3. Islamic values and national interest: the foreign policy of Saudi Arabia James P. Piscatori; 4. Libyan loneliness in facing the world: the challenge of Islam? B. Scarcia Amoretti; 5. In search of an identity: Islam and Pakistan's foreign policy Shirin Tahir-Kheli; 6. The limits of instrumentalism: Islam in Egypt's foreign policy Ali E. Hillal Dessouki; 7. Explaining the nearly inexplicable: the absence of Islam in Moroccan foreign policy I. William Zartman; 8. Invoking the spirit of Arabism: Islam in the foreign policy of Saddam's Iraq Adeed Dawisha; 9. Islam and Nigerian foreign policy: tradition and social criticism Sam C. Nolutshungu; 10. The Islamic factor in Indonesia's foreign policy: a case of functional ambiguity Michael Leifer; 11. Islam in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union: a double-edged sword? Karen Dawisha and Hélène Carrere D'Encausse; 12. Conclusion Albert Hourani; Index.