American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East (eBook, ePUB)

From Bush to Obama
Redaktion: Akbarzadeh, Shahram; Saikal, Amin; Macqueen, Benjamin; Piscatori, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the contradictions in American democracy promotion in the Middle East. It discusses the principles underlying US democracy promotion, and the debates surrounding US policy formation, and examines the application of US democracy promotion in specific cases. It concludes by assessing the likely future patterns of US engagement with democratic reform in the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135117054
• Artikelnr.: 38456773

Autorenporträt

Shahram Akbarzadeh is Professor of Asian Politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. James Piscatori is Professor of International Relations at the University of Durham, UK. Benjamin MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Monash University. Amin Saikal is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Marina Ottaway 1. An Arab Democratic Spring? US Democracy Promotion
Policy and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East Shahram Akbarzadeh and
Benjamin MacQueen Part 1: Coercive/Interventionist Democratisation
2.'Democratisation', Religious Extremism, Fragile States, and Insurgencies:
Bush's Legacies to Obama and the Challenges Ahead Juan Cole 3. The
Americanisation of Democratic Theory: Some Lessons from Iraq and
Afghanistan William Maley Part 2: Avenues to Democratisation 4. Political
Reconstruction, Democracy and Power-Sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq
Benjamin MacQueen 5. Winning Hearts and Minds: US Promotion of a Democratic
Islam James Piscatori 6. The Political Economy of Protection:
Democratisation and the American Presence in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain
Amy Holmes 7. Energy Security and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: A
Bush-Obama Continuum? Leanne Piggott Part 3: Case Studies 8. Iraq: Elite
Fragmentation, Islam and Democracy Amin Saikal 9. Mugged by Reality:
Democracy Promotion and Egyptian Political Reform during the Bush Era, and
the Options for President Obama Robert Bowker 10. Good Governance and Air
Strikes: America's Awkward Toolkit in Yemen Sarah Pillips 11. Future
Patterns of US Engagement with Democratic Reform in the Middle East Amin
Saikal and James Piscatori