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. Rethinking Arab Democratization unpacks and historicizes the rise of Arab electoralism, narrating the story of stalled democratic transition in the Arab Middle East. It provides a balance sheet of the state of Arab democratization from the mid-1970s into the 21st century. In seeking to answer the question of how Arab countriesdemocratize and whether they are democratizing at all, the book pays attention to specificity, highlighting the peculiarities of democratictransitions in the Arab Middle East. To this end, it situates the discussion of such transitions firmly within their local contexts, but without losing sight of the global picture, namely, the US drive to control and 'democratize' the Arab World. The book rejects 'exceptionalism', 'foundationalism', and'Orientalism', by showing that the Arab World is not immured from the global trend towards political liberalization. But by identifying new trends in Arab democratic transitions, highlighting their peculiarities and drawing on Arab neglected discourses and voices, the book pinpoints the contingency of some of the arguments underlying Western theories of democratic transition when applied to the Arab setting.Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. Volumes concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series is primarily Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia. The series editor is Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow, Nuffield College,University of Oxford. INDICE: Preface Introduction Rethinking Democratization in the Arab Context Mapping out Arab Electoralism, 1998-2007 Elections without Democracy: The False Starts, 1975-1997 The Greater Middle East Initiative: A US Democracy Promotion 'Road Map'? Catalysts from Below: Transition and 'Bread Riots' Al-Jazeerah and the Internet as Sites of Democratic Struggle Conclusions
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969924-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha Publicación: 10/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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