On March 13, 2014 RIAC held a working meeting “The Islamic Factor in Contemporary World Politics” opened by RIAC President Igor Ivanov, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and Director of MGIMO Center for Partnership of Civilizations Veniamin Popov. The event was attended by analysts from MGIMO-University,...
... as a phenomenon of the new age, we should examine the events of the 20th century, more specifically at the peak of terrorism during the 1960-1980s with the rise of mainly nationalist and anarchist entities like
the Red Brigades
in Italy, the
Armed Islamic Group
in Algeria, the
Irish Republican Army
(IRA), the
Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO), the
Red Army Faction
in Germany, the
Red Army
in Japan, the
Shining Path
in Peru, etc., which all strived for political change in their home countries....
How does the “Islamic factor” influence migration flows coming to Russia?
Even a few years back while specialists in Islamic studies, ethnologists, demographers and other scholars dealing with the problems of Central Asia were talking about the correlation between ...
What will be a unifying factor in the “Arab Spring” countries?
Pan-Arab nationalism has lost its popularity, in contrast to the local state nationalism. However, now Islamism has come to the fore in the "Arab Spring" countries, which is a historically justified phenomenon. And nationalism is now bound to be dyed in the colors of Islam.
"A Great Giant" has not been born
Arab nationalism is a unique ...