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Thus, Islamism can be seen as a distinct political ideology, and a peculiar (political?) phenomenon of the twentieth-century/a peculiar phenomenon/development of the twentieth-century/(and)one peculiar to the twentieth century. While Islam addresses all aspects of relations between man and God and relations between humans, including politics, Islam does not prescribe a particular form of government. Islamism, Islamist movements and the quest for an Islamic state as a political alternative are rooted in the abolition of the Caliphate with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the encounter of the Muslim world with modernity, the traumas of Western colonialism, the failure of secular nationalism, pervasive corruption and the authoritarianism, the inability of the developmentalist policies to bridge the prosperity gap with the West, the failure to liberate Palestine, the perception that US foreign policy has promoted injustice, and the uncertainty resulting from globalization. [maybe cut this sentence in three parts, demarcated by islamic nationalisms, [caliphate > colonial][colonial > post colonial] [recent/modern] at least do something about 'the authoritarianism,' replace it with "...modern islamic states are marked by their authoritarianism and corruption" within the modern sentence] The appeal of the Islamist alternative lies in its focus on sicla justice and the belief that the introduction of religion and morality will eradicate corruption, nepotist prostitution, discrimination and poverty. [if you could revise your previous sentence so as to feature the modern development, this one would be better too]In many states, Islamism has also become the only viable form of protest as opposition movements or political parties are banned and heavy handedly suppressed, leaving the mosque as the only space from which to articulate grievances. At the same time, Islamist movements are the products of their own specific environments, differing in aims, strategies and guiding philosophy, and thus attention must be paid to the particulars of each. The vast majority of Islamist movements do not fall within the Islamic nationalist category, meaning they function within the given boundaries of a particular state or a particular regional conflict[?]. The 1979-89 war in Afghanistan, Cold War rivalry and, in particular American policy contributed to the emergence of international jihadism which has flourished in the context of globalization. Ultimately it laid the foundation for the emergence of global Islamism as respresented by al-Qaeda. The emergence of al-Qaeda, in turn, has posed new challenges for policy-makers by functioning outside the nation-state context, and putting into doubt prevailing assumptions such as the attribution of Islamism to poverty. Finally, it has thrown down the gauntlet to both advocates of political engagement as well as the advocates of military solutions. [maybe rehash this one a bit]
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