More freedom, less terror? : liberalization and political violence in the Arab world /
In the wake of September 11 through the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a key tenet of U.S. foreign policy has been that promoting democracy in the Arab world is an important strategy in reducing terrorism; at the same time, some policymakers and analysts have held that democracy has nothing to do with terro...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND Corp.,
©2008.
©2008 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Figures
- Table
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- "Democracy" and terrorism in the Arab world: a framework for analysis
- Introduction
- Democracy in the Middle East: "liberalized autocracies" or genuine democratization?
- Understanding terrorism
- The democracy-terrorism debate
- Post 9/11 "draining the swamp" logic
- The democracy backlash
- Democracy-terrorism hypotheses
- Empirical application to the Arab world: case selection and methods
- Egypt
- Introduction
- Liberalization in the Mubarak era
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Repression and destabilization
- Conclusion
- Jordan
- Liberalization trends
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Normative effects
- Institutional effects
- Legitimacy
- Conclusion
- Bahrain
- Introduction
- Liberalization trends
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Perceptions of regime legitimacy
- Norms of tolerance and pluralism
- Institutional logic
- Conclusions and implications
- Saudi Arabia
- Introduction
- Liberalization trends
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Regime legitimacy
- Normative and institutional effects: the municipal council elections
- Conclusion
- Algeria
- Trends in liberalization
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Institutional effects
- Normative effects
- The effects of state actions on perceptions of regime legitimacy
- Summary and implications
- Morocco
- Introduction
- Trends in liberalization
- Trends in violent activity
- Comparing levels of freedom and terrorism
- Assessing effects
- Institutional effects
- Normative effects
- Legitimacy
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Liberalization in the Arab world can both contain and exacerbate political violence
- Policy implications: a return to realism or realistic democracy promotion?
- Policy recommendations
- Bibliography.