- پاکستان جرنل آف اسلامک ریسرچ, Vol # 19, Issue # 1
- Making Sense of Cyber-Caliphate: A Transnational Movement in an era of hyper-globalization
Making Sense of Cyber-Caliphate: A Transnational Movement in an era of hyper-globalization
- Muqarrab Akbar/
- Tasawar Baig/
- June 30, 2018
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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.
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Author(s):

Muqarrab Akbar
AuthorProfessor/Chairman, Department of Political Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.
Pakistan
- muqarrabakbar@bzu.edu.pk
- 03226308891
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Tasawar Baig
Co-AuthorAssistant 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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