Receive Your Copy Democratization And Authoritarianism In The Arab World Produced By Larry Diamond Offered In Printable Format

in December, a series of uprisings swept the Arab world, toppling four longtime leaders and creating an apparent political opening in a region long impervious to the "third wave" of democratization.
Despite the initial euphoria, the legacies of authoritarianismpolarized societies, politicized militaries, statecentric economies, and pervasive clientelismhave proven stubborn obstacles to the fashioning of new political and social contracts.
Meanwhile, the strong electoral performance of political Islamists and the ensuing backlash in Egypt have rekindled arguments about the compatibility of democracy and political Islam.
Even though progress toward democracy has been halting at best, the regions political environment today bears little resemblance to what it was before the uprisings.


In Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, leading scholars address the questions posed by this period of historic change in the Middle East and North Africa.
This volume includes chapters examining several broad themes: the regions shifting political culture, the relationship between democracy and political Islam, the legacy of authoritarian ruling arrangements, the strengths and vulnerabilities of remaining autocracies, and the lessons learned from transitions to democracy in other parts of the world.
It also features chapters analyzing the political development of individual countries: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, and the monarchies of the Gulf.


Contributors

Hicham Ben Abdallah El AlaouiApril Longley AlleyZoltan BaranyAhmed BenchemsiMieczyslaw P, BoduszynskiNathan J. BrownJason BrownleeDaniel BrumbergJohn M. CareyMichele DunneAbdou FilaliAnsaryHillel FradkinF. Gregory Gause IIIHusain HaqqaniSteven HeydemannPhilip N, HowardMuzammil M. HussainAmaney JamalStéphane LacroixJuan J, LinzTarek MasoudMarc F. PlattnerTarek RadwanHamadi RedissiAndrew ReynoldsMichael RobbinsOlivier RoyPeter J, SchraederAlfred StepanMark TesslerFrédéric VolpiLucan WayFrederic WehreySean L, Yom Larry Jay Diamond born October,is a political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies.
He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science by courtesy at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank.
At Stanford he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy, Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford Universitys main center for research on international issues.
At the Institute Diamond s Larry Jay Diamond born October,is a political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies.
He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science by courtesy at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank.
At Stanford he teaches courses on democratic development and supervises the democracy program at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
He has published extensively in the fields of foreign policy, foreign aid, and democracy, Diamond is also a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is Stanford Universitys main center for research on international issues.
At the Institute Diamond serves as the director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and

the Rule of Law.
The CDDRLs most recent accomplishment came in the spring ofby building a technological community between Tahrir Square Cairo, Egypt and Silicon Valley California Bay Area.
This community was fully focused on helping mobilize protesters in Egypt who eventually helped in the downfall of autocratic president Hosni Mubarak.
Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the United States Department of State, United Nations, World Bank, and U.
S. Agency for International Development. He is a founding co editor of the National Endowment for Democracy's Journal of Democracy, He is also a coordinator of the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project, along with Abbas Milani and Michael McFaul.
sitelink.