M A Mohamed Salih

Economic Development and Political Action in the Arab World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analysis of the North African 'Arab Spring' revolt against authoritarianism tends to focus reductively on social media, youth unemployment and citizen agitation. Whilst recognizing these factors, this book explains the revolt against the backdrop of a faulty developmental paradigm which privileged growth-centered export-led development at the expense of the domestic economy on which the majority of the population subsists. The book goes on to explore how european policies of toleration contributed towards perpetuating authoritarian regimes. This timely and sophisticated exploration of the revolt and its consequences is of great interest to researchers, policy makers and activists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415813754
• ISBN-10: 0415813751
• Artikelnr.: 37044048

Autorenporträt

　 M. A. Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development, both at the Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, where he is Deputy Rector for Research, and the Department of Political Science, the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Alchemy of Economic and Political Action 2. State-Building and
State-Society Relations 3. Elements of Resource Challenges 4. Politics of
Resource Conflicts 5. Quiescence: Regime Type and Government Expenditure 6.
Paradigm Error: Unemployment, Poverty and Food Insecurity 7. Whither
Democracy and Human Rights: European-Mediterranean Partnership? 8. Divine
Altruism: Politics of Islamic NGOs¿ Interventions 9. Conclusions