Cargando…
Of empires and citizens : pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? /
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region--and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles--one must factor in how a str...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? : the U.S. strategic approach to democracy
- Becoming Jordan and Kuwait: the making and consolidating of U.S. client regimes
- Islamist momentum in the Arab world: Jordan's Islamic Action Front and Kuwait's Islamic Constitutional Movement
- Engaging the regime through the lens of the United States: citizens' political preferences
- Support for democracy and authoritarianism: the geostrategic utility of cooperative leadership
- Morocco: support for the status quo
- Palestine and Saudi Arabia and the limits of democracy
- The influence of international context on domestic-level models of regime transition and democratic consolidation.