Ovi Magazine Issue #24: Nationalism - Published: 2013-01-31
In this thematic issue of the Ovi magazine we are not giving answers about “nationalism.” We simply express opinions. We also start a dialogue with only aim to understand better. In this thematic issue of the Ovi magazine we are not giving answers about “nationalism.” We simply express opinions. We also start a dialogue with only aim to understand better.
ArticleProf. Anis H. BajrektarevicFrom Lisbon to Barcelonaall the forgotten EU instrumentsThere is a claim currently circulatingthe EU, both cynical and misleading:‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’.No wonder, as the conglomerate ofnation-states/EU has silently handedover one of its most importantdebates – that of European identity – to the wingparties,recently followed by the several selectiveand contra-productive foreign policy actions.Europe’s domestic cohesion, its fundamentalrealignment as well as the overall public standingand credibility within its strategic neighborhood liesin the reinvigoration of its everything but institutionstransformative powers – stipulated in the Barcelonaprocess of the European Neighborhood Policy aswell as in the Euro-Med partnership (OSCE).*******************By correlating the hydrocarbons with thepresent political and socio-economic landscape,scholar Larry Diamond reveled that currently 22states in the world, which earn 60% or more oftheir respective GDP from oil (and gas) are a nondemocratic,authoritarian regimes. All of them withhuge disparities, steep socio-economic cleavages,sharp political inequalities and lasting exclusions,not to mention poor human rights records. Theserepresent nearly half of the countries consideredby the Freedom House’s annual reports as ‘notfree’– the very same that are predominantly heldaccountable by the western media for domestic andregional insurgences, intl. armed conflicts, faminesas well as for terrorists harboring and financing.Hence, as many as 9 of the 11 top crude exporters areusually labeled as the dictatorships and/ or despoticmonarchies by the leading academia. Prof. Diamondcalls it democratic recession. If so, there is not asingle economic or political indicator at the MENA(Middle East – North Africa) region to imply any‘Spring’ happening lately, but only a severe, lastingrecession.Indeed, modern history is full of examples wherethe crude exporting countries’ development washindered by the huge revenues. Far too often, thepetro-cash flow did not assist but delayed or derailed42
ThemeFormer legal practitioner and the president of Young Lawyers Association of BiH Bar (late ‘80s).Former MFA official and career diplomat (early ‘90s). Research Fellow at the Institute for ModernPolitical-history analyses, Dr. Bruno Kreisky Foundation; Legal and Political Advisor for CEE atthe Vienna-based Political Academy, Dr. Karl Renner (mid 1990s). Later, he served as a SeniorLegal Officer and Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Vienna (ICMPD Liaison unit withGovernments and IOs) at the Vienna based HQ of the Intergovernmental Organization ICMPD(International Centre for Migration Policy Development).necessary economic diversification and politicalreform. It also frequently paved the way up for theelites, domestically felt as predatory, and externallyinstrumented as –to use CIA jargon– ‘useful idiots’.Conveniently though using revenues to buy andotherwise subsidize social peace, those regimes(of rentier states) were/are actually creating selfentrapment– ever stronger psychological andpolitical dependence on hydrocarbons. Therefore, areal ‘Arab Spring’, for the Middle East and rest of us,will only come with a socio-economic decouplingand diversification, socio-political horizontalization,with a decisive de-psychologisation of and departurefrom oil-dependence. By no means, it would evercome by a pure cosmetic change of the resident inthe presidential palace.Fearing the leftist republican pan-Arabismand Nasserism, the US encouraged Saudi Arabiato sponsor the existing and establish a new largenetwork of madrasah all over the Middle East –Prof. Cleveland reminds us in his capital work: AHistory of the Modern Middle East. In the last threedecades, this tiger became‘too big to ride’, asLawrenceWrightpoints out in his luminary book on Al Qaida:The Looming Tower. Wright states that whilerepresenting only 1,5% of the world’s Muslims,Saudis fund and essentially control around 90% ofthe Islamic institutions from the US to Kazakhstan/Xinjiang and from Norway to Australia. 1By insisting on oversimplified and rigid, sectarianWahhabi-Salafist interpretations of religioustexts, most of these institutions along with theirindoctrinated clerics are in fact both corrupting andpreventing an important inner debate about Islamand modernity. Self-detained in a limbo of denial,they largely (and purposely) keep the Arab and non-Arab Muslim world in a dangerous confrontationalcourse with both itself and the rest of the world.To end this, there is a claim currentlycirculating the EU, both cynical and misleading:‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. The sort ofIslam Europe supported (and the means deployedto do so) in the Middle East yesterday, is the sortof Islam (and the means it uses) that Europe getstoday.43
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Former legal practitioner and the president of Young Lawyers Association of BiH Bar (late ‘80s).
Former MFA official and career diplomat (early ‘90s). Research Fellow at the Institute for Modern
Political-history analyses, Dr. Bruno Kreisky Foundation; Legal and Political Advisor for CEE at
the Vienna-based Political Academy, Dr. Karl Renner (mid 1990s). Later, he served as a Senior
Legal Officer and Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Vienna (ICMPD Liaison unit with
Governments and IOs) at the Vienna based HQ of the Intergovernmental Organization ICMPD
(International Centre for Migration Policy Development).
necessary economic diversification and political
reform. It also frequently paved the way up for the
elites, domestically felt as predatory, and externally
instrumented as –to use CIA jargon– ‘useful idiots’.
Conveniently though using revenues to buy and
otherwise subsidize social peace, those regimes
(of rentier states) were/are actually creating selfentrapment
– ever stronger psychological and
political dependence on hydrocarbons. Therefore, a
real ‘Arab Spring’, for the Middle East and rest of us,
will only come with a socio-economic decoupling
and diversification, socio-political horizontalization,
with a decisive de-psychologisation of and departure
from oil-dependence. By no means, it would ever
come by a pure cosmetic change of the resident in
the presidential palace.
Fearing the leftist republican pan-Arabism
and Nasserism, the US encouraged Saudi Arabia
to sponsor the existing and establish a new large
network of madrasah all over the Middle East –
Prof. Cleveland reminds us in his capital work: A
History of the Modern Middle East. In the last three
decades, this tiger became
‘too big to ride’, as
Lawrence
Wright
points out in his luminary book on Al Qaida:
The Looming Tower. Wright states that while
representing only 1,5% of the world’s Muslims,
Saudis fund and essentially control around 90% of
the Islamic institutions from the US to Kazakhstan/
Xinjiang and from Norway to Australia. 1
By insisting on oversimplified and rigid, sectarian
Wahhabi-Salafist interpretations of religious
texts, most of these institutions along with their
indoctrinated clerics are in fact both corrupting and
preventing an important inner debate about Islam
and modernity. Self-detained in a limbo of denial,
they largely (and purposely) keep the Arab and non-
Arab Muslim world in a dangerous confrontational
course with both itself and the rest of the world.
To end this, there is a claim currently
circulating the EU, both cynical and misleading:
‘multiculturalism is dead in Europe’. The sort of
Islam Europe supported (and the means deployed
to do so) in the Middle East yesterday, is the sort
of Islam (and the means it uses) that Europe gets
today.
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