PJIR | Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research - Multan

پاکستان جرنل آف اسلامک ریسرچ

BAHAUDDIN ZAKARIYA UNIVERSITY, MULTAN, PAKISTAN
ISSN (print): 2070-0326
ISSN (online): 2618-0820
Abstract

In the age of hyper-globalization, the processes of globalization may assist transnational Islamic fundamentalist networks in creating a parallel caliphate as a de facto state and the cyber world (a cyber caliphate). The idea of caliphate is appealing as a political system to many within Muslim societies. The study shows how these fundamentalists are urban opportunists, who become participants of globalization to create a new transnational social geography or imagined worlds by using technological innovations. These technological innovations are major tool for recruitment of transnational members to create this imagined world referred as cyber-caliphate.  However, the discussion shows that the nation-states take these transnational acts as threats to their national integrity and do not accord them legitimacy. In a multi-centric world, states rely on multilateral cooperation to create pluralistic spheres of authority to mitigate this transnational security challenge to the post-Westphalian state system.

Author(s):

Professor/Chairman, Department of Political Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.

Pakistan

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Tasawar Baig

Co-Author

Assistant professor, Department of International Relations, Karakoram International University, Gilgit.

Pakistan

Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 19
Issue: 1
Language: English
Id: 66e7e8cd73bf4
Pages 123 - 138
Discipline: Arts & Humanities
Published June 30, 2018

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