Is a pan-Islamic foreign policy possible? What are the possible obstacles and what might facilitate its emergence?

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - General and Theories of International Politics, grade: 17 von 20 (A), University of St Andrews (Department of IR), course: IR 1006, language: English, abstract: We have to look back to the year 750 AD, the end of the Omayyad Caliphs 1, to see the "Islamic world" acting as an united power. The probability of an emergence of a pan-Islamic foreign po...