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This book explores the contradictions in American democracy promotion in the Middle East. It discusses the principles underlying US democracy promotion, and the debates surrounding US policy formation, and examines the application of US democracy promotion in specific cases. It concludes by assessing the likely future patterns of US engagement with democratic reform in the Middle East.
List of contents
Preface
Marina Ottaway 1. An Arab Democratic Spring? US Democracy Promotion Policy and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East
Shahram Akbarzadeh and Benjamin MacQueen Part 1: Coercive/Interventionist Democratisation 2.'Democratisation', Religious Extremism, Fragile States, and Insurgencies: Bush's Legacies to Obama and the Challenges Ahead
Juan Cole 3. The Americanisation of Democratic Theory: Some Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
William Maley Part 2: Avenues to Democratisation 4. Political Reconstruction, Democracy and Power-Sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq
Benjamin MacQueen 5. Winning Hearts and Minds: US Promotion of a Democratic Islam
James Piscatori 6. The Political Economy of Protection: Democratisation and the American Presence in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain
Amy Holmes 7. Energy Security and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama Continuum?
Leanne Piggott Part 3: Case Studies 8. Iraq: Elite Fragmentation, Islam and Democracy
Amin Saikal 9. Mugged by Reality: Democracy Promotion and Egyptian Political Reform during the Bush Era, and the Options for President Obama
Robert Bowker 10. Good Governance and Air Strikes: America's Awkward Toolkit in Yemen
Sarah Pillips 11. Future Patterns of US Engagement with Democratic Reform in the Middle East
Amin Saikal and James Piscatori
About the author
Shahram Akbarzadeh is Professor of Asian Politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
James Piscatori is Professor of International Relations at the University of Durham, UK.
Benjamin MacQueen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Monash University.
Amin Saikal is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University.
Summary
This book explores the contradictions in American democracy promotion in the Middle East. It discusses the principles underlying US democracy promotion, and the debates surrounding US policy formation, and examines the application of US democracy promotion in specific cases. It concludes by assessing the likely future patterns of US engagement with democratic reform in the Middle East.
