Glenn E. Perry

Indiana State University | ISU · Department of Political Science

Book reviewed in this article:Speaking the Truth: Zionism, Israel, and Occupation: by Michael Prior, ed.; foreword by Archbishop Desmond TutuThe Case for Palestine: an International Law Perspective: by John QuigleyPalestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland: by Juliane Hammer

This essay relates to two books: Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield, The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy or Division? and Peter W. Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End.

“Greater Israel’s Nondemocratic Character. In Barriers to Reconciliation: Case Studies on Iraq and the Palestine-Israel Conflict. Edited by William Haddad and Jacqueline Ismael. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006.

Fatal Future? Transnational Terrorism and the New Global Disorder. Richard M. Pearlstein. Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror. Jason Burke. Why? The Deeper History Behind the September 11th Terrorist Attack on America. 2nd ed. Expanded and Updated. J. W. Smith. The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11. Davi...

This article examines the idea that Islam’s rejection of popular sovereignty makes it incompatible with democracy. I show instead that sovereignty (“absolute despotic power,” popular or otherwise) is a sterile, pedantic, abstruse, formalistic, and legalistic concept, and that democracy should be seen as involving “popular control” rather than “popu...

“The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Is Fatally Flawed: Yes” (Issue 24b). In History in Dispute: The Middle East Since 1945., Vol. 2. Edited by David Lesch. History in Dispute series. Detroit: St. James Press, 2003.

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The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder, Bassam Tibi. Comparative Studies in Religion and Society Series #9, Mark Juergensmeyer, editor.Against Islamic Extremism: The Writings of Muhammad Sacid al-cAshmawy. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, editor.Qur'an, Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Inter-religious Sol...

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