Beyond the line?

• Main Authors: Morandi, Pietro, Triebel, Armin
• Format: Others
• Language: German
• Published: Universität Potsdam 2004
• Subjects: Modernisierung; Islam; Iran; Ägypten; Modernization; Egypt; Political science
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-47113; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/texte_eingeschraenkt_welttrends/2010/4711/

In December 2003, the Orient-Occident Forum for Intercultural Exchange at the University of Potsdam and the academic partnership program Potsdam-Teheran held a week-long conference, titled „Comparing Processes of Modernization“, which was attended by many social scientists from Egypt, Iran and Germany. In this issue, some of the contributions of the conference are published and commented. During the course of the conference, an intercultural discourse – „beyond the line“ – concerning the responsibilities and development prospects of modernization theory took place. In their article, the organizers of the meeting try to systematically summarize these discussions and present some further reflections.