The problem of democracy : America, the Middle East, and the rise and fall of an idea / Shadi Hamid.
What happens when democracy produces bad outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This democratic dilemma is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East--we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice. When...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
Table of Contents:
- Is democracy worth supporting?
- Democratic minimalism in theory and practice
- The problem of Islam
- Democratic dilemmas : Egypt, Jordan, Algeria
- The American veto
- Culture versus interests
- Anti-despotism or democracy promotion?
- Islamists in government
- On hypocrisy
- On power.