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American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East : From Bush to Obama.

The recent ""Arab spring"", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Akbarzadeh, Shahram
Other Authors: Piscatori, James, MacQueen, Benjamin, Saikal, Amin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; 1 Democracy promotion: An unfortunate legacy; 2 'Democratisation', religious extremism, fragile states, and insurgencies: Bush's legacies to Obama and the challenges ahead; 3 The 'Americanization' of democratic theory: Some lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan; 4 Political reconstruction, democracy and power-sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq; 5 Winning hearts and minds: US promotion of a democratic Islam
  • 6 Energy security and democracy promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama continuum?7 Iraq: Elite fragmentation, Islam and democracy; 8 Mugged by reality: Democracy promotion and Egyptian political reform during the Bush era, and the options for President Obama; 9 Good governance and air strikes: America's awkward toolkit in Yemen; Bibliography; Index