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1 online resource (181 pages) |
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Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series |
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Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series.
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| Contents |
Cover; American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; 1 Democracy promotion: An unfortunate legacy; 2 'Democratisation', religious extremism, fragile states, and insurgencies: Bush's legacies to Obama and the challenges ahead; 3 The 'Americanization' of democratic theory: Some lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan; 4 Political reconstruction, democracy and power-sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq; 5 Winning hearts and minds: US promotion of a democratic Islam |
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6 Energy security and democracy promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama continuum?7 Iraq: Elite fragmentation, Islam and democracy; 8 Mugged by reality: Democracy promotion and Egyptian political reform during the Bush era, and the options for President Obama; 9 Good governance and air strikes: America's awkward toolkit in Yemen; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The recent ""Arab spring"", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support. The recent popular uprisings threaten to bring democracy without promotion by the US, and threaten to overthrow regimes previously supported |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Democratization -- Government policy -- United States
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Democratization -- Government policy
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002449
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Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002448
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Middle East
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Piscatori, James
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MacQueen, Benjamin
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Saikal, Amin
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| ISBN |
9781135117061 |
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1135117063 |
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