This article analyses Middle Eastern authoritarianism and the contemporary political transformations which have swept the region. It suggests that, given the uneven spread of reform and the selectiveness of international ...

Salamey, Abu-Nimer, and Abouaoun examine peacebuilding approaches to post-Arab Spring states and compile comparative country analyses derived from different identity politics, nation building, and power sharing models’ ...

After uprooting Saddam Hussein from power, establishing democracy in Iraq has been declared among the most important objectives of the U.S.-led Coalition. However, the Coalition has encountered complex ethnic and religious ...

Countries in the MENA region have experienced a peculiar pattern of development along a persistent resistance to democratization. Left and right views advanced interpretations that hold post-colonial national arrangements ...

This article explores the theoretical proposition that the Arab Spring is a manifestation of globalization's double movement. On one hand, the global movement of economic and cultural liberalization has fundamentally ...

This article examines the rising contention between a global foreign policy promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East and Islamist rejectionism. It provides a sociopolitical analysis of the phenomena of radical Islamist ...

This doctoral dissertation identifies key aspects that have contributed to the formation and duration of Israeli coalition governments. Most importantly, it differentiates between two historical periods that have shaped ...

The erosion of Arab nation states is attributed to an embedded legitimacy deficit and the deconstruction of geographic barriers. The latest proliferation of cross-national communal conflicts along sectarian, ethnic, and ...

This article sheds light on the governance dilemma in a deeply divided post-conflict Lebanese sectarian society undergoing democratic transition. It assesses consociational democracy as a working model institutionalised ...