Mohammed Ayoob

TL;DR: The Third World's Post-Cold War Security Predicament - the External Dimension The Internal Dimension The Security Problematic of the Third World.

TL;DR: Ayoob's "The Many Faces of Political Islam" is the first work to thoroughly describe the myriad manifestations of this rising ideology, and to analyze its impact on global relations as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A more analytically useful definition of Islamism is that provided by the political scientist Guilian Denoeux, who writes that Islamism as a form of instrumentalization of Islam by individuals, groups and organizations that pursue political objectives as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the literature on international relations, the term "security" has traditionally been defined to mean immunity (to varying degrees) of a state or nation to threats emanating from outside its boundaries as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Many Faces of Political Islam as discussed by the authors is a survey of the main arguments that are made and supported by political Islam advocates, including the definition of political Islam as "a body of faith that has something important to say about how politics and society should be ordered in the contemporary Muslim world".