Democratic Transition in the Middle East
eBook - ePub

Democratic Transition in the Middle East

Unmaking Power

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Democratic Transition in the Middle East

Unmaking Power

About this book

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 first time. This edited volume seeks to unpack the state of the democratic void in three interrelated fields: democracy, legitimacy and social relations. In doing so, the conventional treatment of democratization as a linear, formal, systemic and systematic process is challenged and the power politics of democratic transition reassessed.

Through a close examination of case studies focusing on Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, this collection introduces the reader to indigenous narratives on how power is wrested and negotiated from the bottom up. It will be of interest to those seeking a fresh perspective on democratization models as well as those seeking to understand the reshaping of the Arab Middle East in the lead-up to the Arab Spring.

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Yes, you can access Democratic Transition in the Middle East by Larbi Sadiki,Heiko Wimmen,Layla Al Zubaidi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Democracy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. 1 The void of power and the power of the void: Arab societiesā€™ negotiation of democratic faragh
  8. 2 Citizens of the void: power-sharing and civic political action in Lebanon
  9. 3 Trans-sectarian moral protest against occupation: a case study of Iraq
  10. 4 The fragmentation of Shaykh-murid relationships: power voids and the democratization of religious Sufi authority in Bahrain
  11. 5 Cyberspace and the changing face of protest and public culture in Egypt
  12. 6 ā€œThese are liberated territoriesā€ ā€“ everyday resistance in Egypt: dismantling state power, experimenting with alternatives and the growing movement from 2000 to 2010
  13. 7 Void vs. presence: the ā€œin-between-nessā€ of state and society in Yemen
  14. 8 Economic transformation and diffiusion of authoritarian power in Syria
  15. Conclusion: hidden pathways, uncharted spaces
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index