Alaoui Pacted Democracy in the Middle East

Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-99240-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, eBook

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: History, Secularism, and Islam

Chapter 2: A Theory of Pacted Democracy

Chapter 3: Religion and Politics in Egypt and Tunisia before the Arab Spring

Chapter 4: Tunisian Pacting and Islamist-Secularist Compromise

Chapter 5: Egypt as a Case of Failed Pacting

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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