Описание: Focusing on the Arab Spring, this book examines the role of new constitutions in facilitating democratic transitions. Emphasizing the role of civil society in shaping and steering constitutional debates, Tofigh Maboudi argues that pathways to democracy are more likely to open when constitutions succeed in resolving societal and political ills.
Описание: Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, and Washington DC and recently declassified government documents, this book focuses on the construction and practice of democracy aid in the Middle East, showing how democracy aid can reinforce, rather than challenge authoritarian regimes.
Описание: Examining different forms of resistance among Shi`i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi`i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe.
Описание: A holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests, this accessible study highlights the salience of regime type, civil society, women`s mobilizations, and external intervention across seven countries for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.
Описание: An original, comparative analysis of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North Africa, using Egypt, Morocco and Turkey to explore why, and for what gain, host states treat migrants and refugees with indifference.
Описание: Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, this is an accessible course book on international relations in the Middle East, covering domestic and international foreign policy dynamics in a range of states, including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey.
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