Shadi Hamid

Temptations of Power

Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

Noted Middle East scholar Shadi Hamid draws from years of research on Islamist parties to explain their past, their activities in the present, and the likely paths they will follow in the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780199314058
• ISBN-10: 0199314055
• Artikelnr.: 39525234

Autorenporträt

Shadi Hamid is Director of Research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is a contributor for The Atlantic and a member of the World Bank's MENA Advisory Panel. Prior to joining Brookings, he was Director of Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Hamid has written on the Middle East and U.S. policy for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Slate, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, and many other publications. He has been a guest on NBC Nightly News, the PBS Newshour, and CNN's "Amanpour," and frequently provides commentary on NPR, BBC World News, and Al Jazeera. His writing has been featured on NBC's "Meet the Press," and the Washington Post named him one of the top 23 Twitter accounts "you must follow to understand Egypt."

Inhaltsangabe

1. Islamists in Transition
2. Democrats Before Democracy
3. The Promise of Politics
4. The Turn to Repression
5. Learning to Lose
6. Temptations of Power
7. Illiberal Democracy
8. A Tunisian Exception?
9. The Past and Future of Political Islam