Ali Sanaie
Dr. Sanaie is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics. He has also previously taught at Isfahan University in Iran. He holds his PhD from Loughborough University Business School, and did his PhD discertation "Marketing & Export." He has published three books: Marketing and Electronic Commerce, Joining of Iran to WTO & Forecasting its Effect on Industries, Principle of Marketing and Marketing Management.
As a significant subset of the developing world, the member countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OICMCs) will ultimately be faced with the serious impact of globalisation on one hand, and with the positive implications of dialogue among Civilizations on the other. Their own efforts over a period of more than 20 years to improve regional co-operation and the integration at the OIC level seem to have made a little impact.
Dialogue among civilizations apprehends both listening and speaking. The dialogue is not and should not be a one-way street. The compassion of it all is that we even do not listen to ourselves (e.g. The OIC member counties having over 23 percent of world's population, 30% of resources, and 20% of the world soil consider as biggest international organisation, but its share of intra-trade in OIC's total external is only 9.5%, which shows an explicit indicator of insufficiency of civilization dialogue, trade, and economic co-operation among these countries).
In order to be successful in dialogue, we must first know ourselves( i.e. OIC members), and then study others. This paper attempts to review the impact of globalisation and dialogue among civilization on the OIC member states during the last two decades, and will suggest some necessary conditions for dialogue that can be accomplished.