Pacted democracy in the Middle East : Tunisia and Egypt in comparative perspective / Hicham Alaoui.
This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. It shows that one pathway to democratization lays not in resolving important, but often irreconcilable, debates about the role of religion in politics. Rather, it requires that Islamis...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Series: | St. Antony's series (Palgrave (Firm)).
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. It shows that one pathway to democratization lays not in resolving important, but often irreconcilable, debates about the role of religion in politics. Rather, it requires that Islamists and their secular opponents focus on the concerns of pragmatic survivalthat is, compromise through pacting, rather than battling through difficult philosophical issues about faith. This is the only book-length treatment of this topic, and one that aims to redefine the boundaries of an urgent problem that continues to haunt struggles for democracy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Hicham Alaoui is Research Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, USA. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 303099239X 9783030992392 3030992403 9783030992408 |