1st Edition
Political Islam Inside-Out Adaptation and Resistance of Islamist Movements and Parties in North Africa
Foreword
A. Kadir Yildirim
Introduction – Rethinking Islamist politics in North Africa: a multi- level analysis of domestic, regional and international dynamics
Giulia Cimini and Beatriz Tomé- Alonso
1. The interplay of regional and domestic politics in Egypt: the case of Salafism
Bárbara Azaola- Piazza and Miguel Hernando de Larramendi
2. Learning mechanisms within an Islamist party: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement between domestic and regional balances
Giulia Cimini
3. What does the PJD learn from the outside? International factors and Islamist politics in Morocco
Beatriz Tomé- Alonso
4. Between national and international interests: Morocco’s Al- Adl wa- l- Ihsane from an international perspective
Alfonso Casani and Farid El Asri
Biography
Giulia Cimini is Junior Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna and a Gerda Henkel Research Fellow. Her research focuses on Maghrebi political parties, dynamics of contention, and security assistance. Her latest works have appeared in the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Contemporary Politics, and The Journal of North African Studies.
Beatriz Tomé-Alonso is Lecturer in International Relations at the National Distance Education University (UNED) and Associate Research Fellow at the GRESAM (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha). Her research focuses on Islamist movements in the Maghreb, especially Morocco, and the interlink between international, regional and domestic arenas. She has published in The Journal of North African Studies, Contemporary Politics and International Studies Perspectives among others.
