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Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Author "ROY, Olivier"
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Title:The Transformation of the Arab World
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Something irreversible happened in the Arab Spring. Whatever ups and downs may follow, we are witnessing the beginning of a process by which democratization is becoming rooted in Arab societies.The article explores the ...
Title:Arab Society in Revolt: The West's Mediterranean Challenge
Author(s):MERLINI, Cesare; ROY, OlivierDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The Arab Spring will be remembered as a period of great change for the Arab states of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. The significant transitions in governance are the result of the profound social, cultural, ...
Title:Europe and the Mediterranean: When obsession for security misses the real world
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:Security (fear of immigration, Islamism and terrorism) has been the main factor in the European decision to launch a protracted and complex program of cooperation and development with the Arab Mediterranean countries. The ...
Title:European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human Rights
Author(s):SCHEININ, Martin; SCHEININ, Martin; BARRETT, Richard; MURPHY, Cian C.; ROACH, Kent; ROY, Olivier; LANE SCHEPPELE, KimDate:2011Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:On 15 March 2011 the Global Governance Programme at the EUI hosted a High-Level Policy Seminar
(HLPS) on "European and United States Counter-Terrorism Policies, the Rule of Law and Human
Rights". The first part of the ...
Title:Breakthroughs in Faith
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Across the globe, a new form of religiosity is transforming the spiritual and secular landscape. Evangelical Christianity, Islamic fundamentalism, and many other modern religions, Olivier Roy argues, are no longer tied to ...
Title:Religious Revivals as a Product and Tool of Globalization
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The debate on the role of religions in international relations tends to revolve around the clash or dialogue alternative. Religion is seen either as a part of an ethno-national culture or as a supra national factor that ...
Title:La Santa Ignorancia: El Tiempo de la Religión sin Cultura
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Olivier Roy propone que el mito de la «santa ignorancia» animaría a los diferentes fundamentalismos modernos y es una expresión de la mundialización y la crisis de las culturas.
¿Por qué miles de musulmanes se están ...
Title:Holy Ignorance. When Religion and Culture Part Ways
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Olivier Roy finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and sociocultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a ...
Title:Heilige Einfalt: Über die politischen Gefahren entwurzelter Religionen
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Im Schatten der Globalisierung erlebt der Glaube einen Boom. Doch während die Religion früher im Zentrum kultureller Traditionen stand, ist die neue Religiosität Ausdruck einer entwurzelten Sinnsuche des Einzelnen. Der ...
Title:The Mediterranean and its Metaphors
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS DLAbstract:When referring to the Mediterranean sea, politicians, writers and religious leaders make frequent use of often contradictory metaphors: cradle of civilizations, and more precisely of the monotheist Abrahamic religion, ...
Title:La santa ignoranza: Religioni senza cultura
Author(s):ROY, OlivierDate:2009Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Perché decine di migliaia di musulmani si convertono al cristianesimo o diventano testimoni di Geova? Come si spiega che la religione che cresce più velocemente nel mondo sia il pentecostismo? Perché il salafismo, una ...
