03690oam 2200685I 450 991077945110332120210803111359.01-135-11705-50-203-07491-21-283-89459-91-135-11706-310.4324/9780203074916(CKB)2550000000710889(EBL)1101400(OCoLC)823389758(SSID)ssj0000786924(PQKBManifestationID)12348067(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786924(PQKBWorkID)10803504(PQKB)10896174(MiAaPQ)EBC1101400(Au-PeEL)EBL1101400(CaPaEBR)ebr10640527(CaONFJC)MIL420709(OCoLC)900236999(FINmELB)ELB133573(PPN)178425672(EXLCZ)99255000000071088920180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican democracy promotion in the changing Middle East from Bush to Obama /edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh. [et al.]Abingdon, Oxon :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (181 p.)Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ;27Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ;27Description based upon print version of record.1-138-81555-1 0-415-52055-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgement; 1 Democracy promotion: An unfortunate legacy; 2 'Democratisation', religious extremism, fragile states, and insurgencies: Bush's legacies to Obama and the challenges ahead; 3 The 'Americanization' of democratic theory: Some lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan; 4 Political reconstruction, democracy and power-sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq; 5 Winning hearts and minds: US promotion of a democratic Islam6 Energy security and democracy promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama continuum?7 Iraq: Elite fragmentation, Islam and democracy; 8 Mugged by reality: Democracy promotion and Egyptian political reform during the Bush era, and the options for President Obama; 9 Good governance and air strikes: America's awkward toolkit in Yemen; Bibliography; IndexThe recent ""Arab spring"", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support. The recent popular uprisings threaten to bring democracy without promotion by the US, and threaten to overthrow regimes previously supportedDurham Modern Middle East and Islamic World SeriesDemocratizationGovernment policyUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsMiddle EastMiddle EastForeign relationsUnited StatesDemocratizationGovernment policy327.1/1Akbarzadeh Shahram731221MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779451103321American democracy promotion in the changing Middle East3720985UNINA