Democracy And Reform In The Middle East And Asia

Author : Amin Saikal
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781780768069
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia written by Amin Saikal and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in the Middle East and North Africa that produced these attempts at revolution, Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya explore the global impact of the protests, both in terms of their ideological influence on opposition groups and the prospects for democratic transition in a variety of authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments. Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia commences with a comprehensive attempt to understand the cultural, economic and political background out of which the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya emerged. It then expands outwards investigating the impact of the Arab uprisings on a regional level in other Middle Eastern and north African states such as Iran, Morocco and Algeria, and on a more global level in the Asian states of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the former Soviet Muslim republics. Saikal and Acharya bring a global perspective to the still-unfolding wave of calls for more meaningful political participation, which continues to make itself felt in the Middle East, to shed light upon the ideal role of both regional and international actors in promoting sustainable transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. This book not only offers explanations for why certain countries were more susceptible to the spread of the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, but also contrasts the organic and grassroots vehicles for democratization characteristic of the most recent Arab uprisings with the Western model of externally imposed regime change to illustrate the conditions necessary for a successful democratic transition. Touching on perennial issues in politics - for example, democracy, authoritarian rule and social protest - this book is vital for researchers of politics and international relations.

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755608638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia written by Amitav Acharya and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Democratizing the Neighborhood: The Implications of the 'Arab Spring' for the Middle East and Asia. Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya -- Chapter 1: Where have all the Democratic Expectations Gone? Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective. Mohammad Selim -- Chapter 2: Managed Reforms and Deferred Democratic Rule in Morocco and Algeria. Karima Laachir -- Chapter 3: Humanitarianism, Democracy and Intervention: Libya and the Responsibility to Protect. Ramesh Thakur -- Chapter 4: Afghanistan and Iraq Between Democracy and Radical Islam. Amin Saikal -- Chapter 5: The Arab Revolution is Bad News for Iran. Shahram Akbarzadeh -- Chapter 6: Central Asia and the Arab Spring: Discourses of Relevance and Threat in the Region. Kirill Nourzhanov -- Chapter 7: Pakistan and the Arab Uprisings. Samina Yasmeen -- Chapter 8: China's Responses to the Arab Uprisings. Baogang He -- Chapter 9: Democratization in Myanmar and the Arab Uprisings. Trevor Wilson -- Chapter 10: Arab Uprisings' Contagion: Electronic Vicariousness and Democratic Empathy in Malaysia and Singapore. Alan Chong -- Chapter 11: 'Look Over Here!': Indonesian Responses to the 'Arab Spring'. Greg Fealy.

Author : Robert P. Beschel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815736983
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa written by Robert P. Beschel and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors. Unwieldy, unresponsive—and often corrupt—governments across the region have faced new pressure, not least from their publics, to improve the quality of public services and open up their decisionmaking processes. Some of these reform efforts were under way and at least partly successful before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2010. Reform efforts have continued in some countries despite the many upheavals since then. This book offers a comprehensive assessment of a wide range of reform efforts in nine countries. In six cases the reforms targeted core systems of government: Jordan's restructuring of cabinet operations, the Palestinian Authority's revision of public financial management, Morocco's voluntary retirement program, human resource management reforms in Lebanon, an e-governance initiative in Dubai, and attempts to improve transparency in Tunisia. Five other reform efforts tackled line departments of government, among them Egypt's attempt to improve tax collection and Saudi Arabia's work to improve service delivery and bill collection. Some of these reform efforts were more successful than others. This book examines both the good and the bad, looking not only at what each reform accomplished but at how it was implemented. The result is a series of useful lessons on how public sector reforms can be adopted in MENA.

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Carnegie Endowment
ISBN 13 : 0870032860
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncharted Journey written by Thomas Carothers and published by Carnegie Endowment. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States faces no greater challenge today than successfully fulfilling its new ambition of helping bring about a democratic transformation of the Middle East. Uncharted Journey contributes a wealth of concise, illuminating insights on this subject, drawing on the contributors' deep knowledge of Arab politics and their substantial experience with democracy-building in other parts of the world. The essays in part one vividly dissect the state of Arab politics today, including an up-to-date examination of the political shock wave in the region produced by the invasion of Iraq. Part two and three set out a provocative exploration of the possible elements of a democracy promotion strategy for the region. The contributors identify potential false steps as well as a productive way forward, avoiding the twin shoals of either reflexive pessimism in the face of the daunting obstacles to Arab democratization or an unrealistic optimism that fails to take into account the region's political complexities. Contributors include Eva Bellin (Hunter College), Daniel Brumberg (Carnegie Endowment), Thomas Carothers (Carnegie Endowment), Michele Dunne (Georgetown University), Graham Fuller, Amy Hawthorne (Carnegie Endowment), Marina Ottaway (Carnegie Endowment), and Richard Youngs (Foreign Policy Centre).

Author : Mona Yacoubian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Middle East Democracy II written by Mona Yacoubian and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Handelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Its Limits written by Howard Handelman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These multidisciplinary essays combine an appreciation of the progress made in Third World democratization with an assessment of structural and cultural factors that limit further progress toward procedural democracy in many parts of the world, such as China and much of the Middle East.

Author : Amin Saikal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735187
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia written by Amin Saikal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in the Middle East and North Africa that produced these attempts at revolution, Amin Saikal and Amitav Acharya explore the global impact of the protests, both in terms of their ideological influence on opposition groups and the prospects for democratic transition in a variety of authoritarian and semi-authoritarian governments. Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia commences with a comprehensive attempt to understand the cultural, economic and political background out of which the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya emerged. It then expands outwards investigating the impact of the Arab uprisings on a regional level in other Middle Eastern and north African states such as Iran, Morocco and Algeria, and on a more global level in the Asian states of China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the former Soviet Muslim republics. Saikal and Acharya bring a global perspective to the still-unfolding wave of calls for more meaningful political participation, which continues to make itself felt in the Middle East, to shed light upon the ideal role of both regional and international actors in promoting sustainable transitions from authoritarianism to democracy. This book not only offers explanations for why certain countries were more susceptible to the spread of the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, but also contrasts the organic and grassroots vehicles for democratization characteristic of the most recent Arab uprisings with the Western model of externally imposed regime change to illustrate the conditions necessary for a successful democratic transition. Touching on perennial issues in politics - for example, democracy, authoritarian rule and social protest - this book is vital for researchers of politics and international relations.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Eleven Recommendations Implementation Act Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle East and Problems of Democracy written by Heather Deegan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the post-Cold War, post-Gulf War political environment of the Middle East, a debate about democracy and pluralism has begun. In this work, Heather Deegan challenges the view that political reform is unsustainable in the region, and examines the moves towards democratization which have recently taken place. She discusses individual countries on the basis of their political structures: monarchical, authoritarian, theocratic, confessional and multiparty. She considers factors in the democratizing process such as the institution of political parties, the re-introduction of elections, citizenship with associated rights and responsibilities and the role of Islam. Democracy is not confined solely to a liberal democratic model although political change and greater levels of participation may be viewed as steps paving the way for a fuller democratization in a liberal democratic sense. The author identifies certain constraints which tended to undermine political advances in the past: population mobility, communal division and the impact of the Cold War. She places the possibilities for political reform in the wider context of the Third World in order to assess the degree to which prospects for democracy in the Middle East correspond with general conclusions about democratization in the developing world.

Author : Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Publisher : Middle East Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780863724145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies written by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and published by Middle East Studies. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The oil rich monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are frequently dismissed as having no democratic systems compared to most other regions of the world. Indeed, the United States justified its action in Iraq by proclaiming that democracy and freedom must be adopted, both in Iraq and throughout the wider Middle East, in order to counter the conditions which breed international terrorism. It has been argued that the countries of the Arabian Peninsula need to provide a system of democratic representation that fully takes into account their own history and culture. This raises many questions. Can their firmly established tradition of rule provide the basis for the evolution of an Arab form of constitutional monarchy? Should the West be seeking to encourage national indigenous evolution rather than working to impose Western systems? What are the risks of change and what has been achieved so far? Through articles by eminent academics and government officials, this book - now available in paperback - addresses these issues and examines the drivers, progress, and challenges for future change in this vitally strategic area of the world.