Bøker av Benoit Challand

Shows that the clash of civilizations has become a cognitive scheme through which people look at the world, a practical image on the basis of which they act on it, as well as a drama which mobilizes passions and emotions. This book is suitable for scholars and students of political science, sociology, philosophy, Middle Eastern politics and Islam.

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic. What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing that in Europe's formation, myth and memory, although distinct, are often merged in a common attempt to construct an identity for its present and its future. In a time when Europe is facing an existential crisis, when its meaning is being questioned, Imagining Europe explores a vital and often unacknowledged aspect of the European project.

Examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional perspectives, this book sheds light on the involvement of donors in Palestine.