Introduction / Nathan J. Brown and Emad El-Din Shahin -- New wine in old bottles? American efforts to promote democracy in the Arab world / Nathan J. Brown and Amy Hawthorne -- Democracy and security in the Middle East / Richard Youngs -- The fantasy of Arab democracy without a constituency / Walid Kazziha -- Democracy and faith: the continuum of political Islam / Azza Karam -- Transformations in Eastern Europe and lessons for the Middle East / Shlomo Avineri -- Democratic transformation in Egypt: controlled reforms ... frustrated hopes / Emad El-Din Shahin -- Jordan: the myth of democratizing monarchy / Shadi Hamid -- Democracy in Lebanon: the primacy of the sectarian system / Bassel F. Salloukh -- Democracy, Islam, and secularism in Turkey / Ersin Kalaycioglu -- Conclusion / Nathan J. Brown and Emad El-Din Shahin
Summary
Many residents of the Middle East - and more recently, Western powers - have placed great hope in democratization in the region. Yet authoritarianism remains the norm and movement towards democracy is both slow and uneven. The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East examines democracy and democratization in the light of regional realities rather than the wishful thinking of outsiders. Specialists from the region analyze democratic prospects in the region, while accomplished scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom analyze Western policy, providing a wide-ra
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