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Democratic Transition in the Middle East : Unmaking Power.
Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for the...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Table des matières:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 The void of power and the power of the void: Arab societies' negotiation of democratic faragh; 2 Citizens of the void: power-sharing and civic political action in Lebanon; 3 Trans-sectarian moral protest against occupation: a case study of Iraq; 4 The fragmentation of Shaykh-murid relationships:power voids and the democratization of religious Sufi authority in Bahrain; 5 Cyberspace and the changing face of protest and public culture in Egypt.
- 6 ""These are liberated territories""
- everyday resistance in Egypt: dismantling state power, experimenting with alternatives and the growing movement from 2000 to 20107 Void vs. presence: the ""in-between-ness"" of state and society in Yemen; 8 Economic transformation and diffusion of authoritarian power in Syria; Conclusion: hidden pathways, uncharted spaces; Bibliography; Index.