Pacted Democracy in the Middle East

Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-99239-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

Reihe: St Antony's Series

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world. It shows that one pathway to democratization lays not in resolving important, but often irreconcilable, debates about the role of religion in politics. Rather, it requires that Islamists and their secular opponents focus on the concerns of pragmatic survival—that is, compromise through pacting, rather than battling through difficult philosophical issues about faith. This is the only book-length treatment of this topic, and one that aims to redefine the boundaries of an urgent problem that continues to haunt struggles for democracy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alaoui, Hicham

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Locating the Inquiry.- 2. History, Secularism, and Islam.- 3. A Theory of Pacted Democracy.- 4. Tunisia – Development and State Formation.- 5. Tunisian Pacting and Islamist-Secularist Compromise.- 6. Egypt as Case of Failed Pacting.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Hicham Alaoui is Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, USA.