Sadiki

RETHINKING ARAB DEMOCRAT OSD

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Produktbeschreibung

How do Arab countries democratize? This is the key question Rethinking Arab Democratization seeks to answer. To this end, the book assesses Arab democratic experiments and analyzes the opportunities and perils, highlighting the peculiarities of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP UK
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780199699247
• ISBN-10: 0199699240
• Artikelnr.: 33865000

Autorenporträt

Larbi Sadiki specializes on Arab democratization, a subject he teaches at the University of Exeter, where he is Director of the Middle East Politics Programme. He has published widely on the question of democratic transitions in the Arab Middle East. He has been researching two separate projects on Islamist notions of democracy, with special reference to Hamas and Hizbullah, titles of forthcoming works he is currently authoring. His first book on Arab democratization (Columbia, 2004) has been translated into Arabic and is widely used as the key reference on notions of Arab democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1: Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context
2: Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998-2007
3: Elections without Democracy: The False Starts, 1975-1997
4: The Greater Middle East Initiative: A US Democracy Promotion 'Road Map'?
5: Catalysts from Below: Transition and 'Bread Riots'
6: Al-Jazeerah and the Internet as Sites of Democratic Struggle
7: Conclusions