The tragic events of 9/11 and the subsequent war in Iraq have focused international attention on a nexus of problems involving economic underperformance, problematic internal politics, and externalization of domestic dissent in the Muslim world....

Globalization reigns supreme as a description of recent economic transformation?and it carries many meanings. In the policy realm, the orthodox terms of engagement have been enshrined in the \"Washington consensus.\" But disappointing results in LatinAmerica and transitional economies?plus the Asian financial crisis?...