Open AccessThe role of Islam in foreign policymaking
Author(s) -
Emir Hadžikadunić
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
context
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2303-6966
pISSN - 2303-6958
DOI - 10.55425/23036966.2021.8.2.35
Subject(s) - foreign policy , islam , incentive , political science , dimension (graph theory) , political economy , foreign policy analysis , international relations , positive economics , development economics , sociology , law , economics , politics , philosophy , theology , market economy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Religion has often been an ignored dimension of statecraft, particularly so by realist or neorealist schools. This article explores the question of how a number of states, in which all or a considerable part of the population is Muslim, incorporate Islam as a guiding principle into their broader foreign policy. In this regard, it reviews a selected number of foreign policy cases using individual, domestic and international levels of analysis in which diverse Islamic incentives from major theoretical perspectives interplay with foreign policy. Its ultimate objective is to provide a deeper synthesis of the literature on Islam in foreign policymaking and relating it to major IR theories.