Middle East and North Africa - Governance, Democratization, Human Rights

About the author

Paul J. Magnarella

Summary

This collection contains articles by highly regarded scholars assessing governance, democratisation and human rights in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. It also assesses the role that Islam plays in these areas. In the spirit of the 50th anniversary year of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the authors examine the interrelationships among Islam, politics and human rights and evaluate each country’s contemporary record. The book contains in-depth articles on Islam and politics, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the Gulf States, Turkey, Egypt and the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania). The authors discuss recent political developments in each of these countries and point out their accomplishments and shortcomings in the area of human rights.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Magnarella
• Assisted by: Paul J. Magnarella (Editor), Magnarella Paul J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.1999
• EAN: 9781840149135
• ISBN: 978-1-84014-913-5
• No. of pages: 254
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Middle East, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political structures: democracy, North Africa, Human rights, civil rights, Development Studies