Article by Professor O. Parkhomchuk and PhD student A. Sido. «The Islamic Factor In International Relations In The Middle East»

Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy O. Parkhomchuk, together with her postgraduate student A. Sido, published an article entitled ‘The Islamic Factor In International Relations In The Middle East’ in the publication ‘Actual Problems of International Relations’. The article is devoted to the analysis of the growing role of political Islam in the Middle East.

The article argues for the growing influence of the religious factor as a historical phenomenon of the return of religion to the theory and practice of international relations. The author summarises the main characteristics of the temporal and spatial dynamics of the religious factor's influence on international relations both within the framework of universal laws and the specifics of Islam, and identifies the consequences of this influence. Both the general trends of this phenomenon - transnationalisation, deterritorialisation, decentralisation of religions - and the specific features of the influence of the Islamic factor are identified and characterised.