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Democratic peace across the Middle East : Islam and political modernisation / edited by Yakub Halabi

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London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
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1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : 2 illustrations
Additional Creators
Halabi, Yakub
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Contents
Free to fight? Testing the democratic civil peace in the Middle East / Uriel Abulof -- 2. The end of military tutelage in Turkey and the re-making of Turkish foreign policy under the AKP / Oǧuzhan Göksel -- 3. Lebanon : the lack of a unified and independent foreign policy / Faten Ghosn-Halawi -- 4. The challenge of democratization in post-revolutionary Iran : beyond the democratic peace theory / Mojtaba Mahdavi -- 5. Building a federal state : defining democracy and the essence of the state in post-2003 Iraq / Gareth Stansfield -- 6. Democratization and Egyptian regional policy : Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose / Bassem Hassan -- 7. Democracy and democratic peace : the case of the Palestinian authority / Yakub Halabi -- 8. The consonance of the Islamist Shari'a-state with democratic peace in the context of the Arab Spring / Bassam Tibi -- Conclusion / Yakub Halabi.
Summary
"From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward. This has been particularly evident since the events of 2009 in Iran and the uprisings across the Arab world in late 2010 and 2011. Against this backdrop, Democratic Peace across the Middle East critically analyses the prospects for democracy throughout the region, specifically asking whether political and social modernisation are absolute preconditions for democratic peace to take hold in the region, or whether democracy without modernisation might be enough. It explores the dynamics between neo-patriarchy and Islam on the one hand, and democratisation and modernisation on the other, and also considers the prospect of the political accommodation of opposition groups. Incorporating an analysis of a variety of key dynamics which affect each Middle Eastern country in turn, such as tribal and sectarian identity, Islamism and the structure of political party systems, this book will appeal to those researching the Middle East and its patterns of rule."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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9780857728197 (electronic bk.)
0857728199 (electronic bk.)
9780857728821 (eISBN)
0857728822 (eISBN)
9781350986053 (online)
1350986054
9781784532062
1784532061
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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