Essays about: "westernism"
Found 3 essays containing the word westernism.
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1. LOCALIZING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST ARAB SPRING COUNTRIES A study on the effect of using local language and implementing bodies on the public acceptance of transitional justice in the Middle East
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The failure of transitional justice (TJ) processes in most post-Arab Spring countries has called TJ theory into question. Most literature addressing this failure is based, primarily, on arguments of anti-Westernism and the “external” nature of TJ measures. READ MORE
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2. "It's Complicated" The Relationship Between Islam and Gender Equality. : A Comparative Case Study of the Developments of Family Codes in the two Muslim States Tunisia and Algeria
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This paper takes a critical stance to the conventional thinking about the relationship between Islam and gender equality in a functional idea analysis on the family codes in Algeria and Tunisia. With two different outcomes in spite of their historical and cultural similarities, this paper seeks to understand the developments from neo-colonial and Islamic feminist perspectives. READ MORE
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3. Turkey and the West: Change in Continuity? - A Two-way Approach to Turkey’s Relations with the West
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Westernization is a centuries long project started in the Ottoman Empire, in order to fix the dysfunctionalities of the empire inside and to boost the empire’s image outside. It has transformed into a quest of transformation of Turkey into a modern state and it found its reflection in the foreign policy as a pro-Western approach in the Turkish Republic. READ MORE