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30 - History
University of Ulster
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Article title
Kommunismus, Islam und die US-Außenpolitik zu Beginn des Kalten Krieges
(Communism, Islam and US foreign policy in the early Cold War).
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung (2009)
Article number
163
Volume number
15
Issue number
22
First page of article
163
ISSN of journal
0944-629X
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
The article situates US attitudes toward Islam and communism in the context of the ‘religious cold war’ and explores the role the US accorded religion in general and Islam as a bulwark against the spread of communism and Soviet influence in the early Cold War. It shows how the West’s current conflict with militant Islam can be traced back to the 1940s/1950s, when Truman and Eisenhower invoked the universal tradition of harnessing the power of religion to the policy goals of the state, with consequences conditioned by the special religious characters of American and Muslim cultures.
