STABILITY OF STATES. THE NEXUS BETWEEN TRANSNATIONAL THREATS,GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNAL RESILIENCE

En Islam comme dans le monde chrétien médiéval, l'esprit de chevalerie était loin de se réduire à une éthique militaire. Au contraire, la futuwah, c'est-à-dire l'ensemble des traditions, coutumes et pratiques qui constituaient le code de la vie chevaleresque musulmane au Moyen Âge, s'entendait avant tout au sens spirituel et éthique. Véritable initiation, la futuwah amène l'individu à suivre la noble voie du service divin ; elle forme le sommet de la démarche soufie. Le présent livre, traduction d'un texte arabe dû à un auteur d'origine persane du Xe-XIe siècle, Abû Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Husayn al-Sulamî, est commenté par Faouzi Skali, l'un des auteurs de langue française les plus lus sur le soufisme. Futuwah fait partie de ces grands classiques de la spiritualité universelle que l'on relit sans cesse.

In the past ten years, the spread of the Internet and other advanced technologies has had a dramatic effect on the way people access and perceive information. One of the most revolutionary technological novelties that characterizes the modern "digital revolution" has been the explosion of weblogs. Blogs have impacted numerous facets of international politics including elections, media reporting from zones of conflict, and corporate and congressional policies. They also have potentially significant implications for policy making of the future and for national and global security. This has led to the claim that blogs deserve the title of the "fifth estate," following an analogy with the other four estates that influence modern policy shaping: executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the state and the media. This book methodically analyses the various facets of the modern blogosphere that led the author to support this claim and offers a number of recommendations to further the empowerment of blogs in the global policy arena.

Sustainable global security can only be achieved when education is made a priority by states and their institutions. When properly realized, education can be a global asset to fight poverty, inequality, insecurity, and disease. This book offers an innovative new philosophy in which cultural, religious, and ideological diversity in education throughout the world is encouraged and respected. The author advocates that whenever "the other" is discussed, maximum sensitivity, respect, and tolerance must be exercised by all to prevent any possible exclusion or alienation. The author also argues that there are all kinds of moral truths that see the world from different perspectives and none of them have to necessarily be more right than the other. This book provides an alternative approach to education and outlines the ingredients that any educational system must include in order to ensure a well-educated, tolerant, and peaceful world.

The authors believe that national security is no longer simply national but also transnational and transcultural in its scope, and globalization has a significant role to play in the development of security and strategic agendas at all levels. The pursuit of global security is a transnational phenomenon which is heightened and potentially hindered by the globalization process. This publication proposes an alternative new security principle, which the editor believes is central to the understanding and attainment of lasting security and peace in today's globalized world. The principle, termed "justice-based penta-security," states that "in a globalized world, security is a pentagon of human, environmental, national, transnational and transcultural security, and global security and the security of any one state or culture cannot, therefore, be achieved without good domestic and global governance that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures." Through an examination of the economic, political, environmental, societal, and military links between globalization and securiy, this book provides insight into a complicated and diverse problem while proposing solutions to some of the more pressing issues that states are currently facing. This book contributes an innovative new theory and a unique perspective to the vast literature on globalization and security in a way never before achieved, making it a vital reference to any comprehensive study of these issues.