Question

1. What is meant by political Islam? What role did Islam play in shaping the political economy of the region?
2. How has oil impacted the political and economic development in the MENA. Compare the performances under the RRLP, RRLA and RPLA
3. What are the main factors attributable to the failures of the MENA in their quest to integrate regionally and globally?

Answer 1

Political Islam is any translation of Islam as a wellspring of political character and activity. It can allude to a wide scope of people and gatherings who advocate the change of state and society as indicated by what they see as Islamic standards. It can likewise allude to utilization of Islam as a wellspring of ideas and representations for articulating political positions

Political Islam speaks to one part of the Islamic restoration that started in the twentieth century, and not all types of political action by Muslims are talked about under the rubric of political Islam.

MENA is an abbreviation alluding to the Middle East and North Africa, which compares to the Greater Middle East. It is then again called the WANA (Western Asia and North Africa), just as the MENAP, which likewise incorporates the Central and South Asian nations of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The MENAP covers a broad district extending from the Maghreb in the west to Pakistan in the east. The MENA abbreviation is regularly utilized in the scholarly world, military arranging, catastrophe alleviation, media arranging as a communicate area, and business composing.

The MENA district has immense stores of oil and flammable gas that make it an indispensable wellspring of worldwide financial soundness. As per the Oil and Gas Journal , the MENA locale has 60% of the world's oil stores and 45% of the world's petroleum gas saves.

Because of rich assets, principally oil and gas, joined with its area between three landmasses, (Asia, Africa and Europe), the MENA locale has been in struggle since the breakdown of the Ottoman Empire, remarkably because of the production of Israel, a Jewish state among Arab and Muslim nations; Israeli–Palestinian clash; the Iran–Iraq War; Iran–Saudi Arabia intermediary strife; and the ascent of fear mongering. Struggle in the locale had gone to its most noteworthy pinnacle so far in the 21st century, with episodes, for example, the U.S. intercession of Iraq in 2003 and ensuing Iraq War and the ascent of ISIS; the Arab Spring, which spread war to all through the locale, for example, the Syrian Civil War, Libyan Civil War and Yemeni Civil War.