LEADER 03659oam 2200673I 450 001 9910452531203321 005 20210803111359.0 010 $a0-203-07491-2 010 $a1-283-89459-9 010 $a1-135-11706-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203074916 035 $a(CKB)2550000000710889 035 $a(EBL)1101400 035 $a(OCoLC)823389758 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786924 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12348067 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786924 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10803504 035 $a(PQKB)10896174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1101400 035 $a(PPN)178425672 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1101400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10640527 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420709 035 $a(OCoLC)900236999 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000710889 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican democracy promotion in the changing Middle East $efrom Bush to Obama /$fedited by Shahram Akbarzadeh. [et al.] 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (181 p.) 225 1 $aDurham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ;$v27 225 0$aDurham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ;$v27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-81555-1 311 $a0-415-52055-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Islam 327 $a6 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; Index 330 $aThe recent ""Arab spring"", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support. The recent popular uprisings threaten to bring democracy without promotion by the US, and threaten to overthrow regimes previously supported 410 0$aDurham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series 606 $aDemocratization$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMiddle East 607 $aMiddle East$xForeign relations$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemocratization$xGovernment policy 676 $a327.1/1 701 $aAkbarzadeh$b Shahram$0731221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452531203321 996 $aAmerican democracy promotion in the changing Middle East$92047548 997 $aUNINA