Yahya Sadowski

Chapter 5 named 'The State' is the part I am now stucking in my textbook. The introduction to this chapter says that 'The state is the key actor in international relations.'
Yahya Sadowski of American University of Beirut describes the diversity of Islam and the characteristic of political islam.

Let me introduce Yahya Sadowski briefly here. He is the associate professor of political studies at American University of Beirut. He got his Ph.D. at Univeristy of California in Los Angels in 1984.
He is teaching comparative politics of the Middle East, International Relations of the Middle East, Globalizatioin, US Foreign Policy toward the Middle East and so on.

I have just begun reading his article 'Political Islam: Asking The Wrong Questions?'
As for as I read, he emphasizes the diversity of Islam and the danger to simply regard Islam as a one unity based on the one principal.