The Power Of Civil Society In The Middle East And North Africa

Author : Ibrahim Natil,Chiara Pierobon,Lilian Tauber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429560026

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The Power of Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa by Ibrahim Natil,Chiara Pierobon,Lilian Tauber Pdf

This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region. In recent years, local civil society actors have faced significant challenges from social conservatism, conflict, violence, and the absence of democracy and exclusive political systems. Over the course of the book, the authors investigate how the sector has succeeded in achieving its own objectives despite these shifting conditions, the restrictive political environment and the complexity of the socio-cultural and economic context. Structured around the three themes of peace-building, development, and change, the book also addresses challenges faced by civil society organizations linked to ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversities as well as religious salient differences that are crucial markers of social and political identity. Case studies are drawn from the Palestinian Occupied Territories, Jordan, Iran, Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, and Morocco, and particular effort has been made to showcase original research from contributors who are from the region . This book will be of particular interest to researchers working on development, peace-building, conflict resolution, civil society, and politics within the MENA region.

Author : Augustus R. Norton
Publisher : Social, Economic and Political
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X002563452

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Civil Society in the Middle East by Augustus R. Norton Pdf

North Africa. By Alan Richards

Author : Sean Yom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429016943

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The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa by Sean Yom Pdf

This new textbook explores the societies and populations of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting original chapters written by the world’s leading Middle East scholars, it analyzes the social fabric of the region’s varied countries to uncover the organizing structures, human vulnerabilities, and dynamic forces that shape everyday lives. The volume can be used in conjunction with The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa textbook for a comprehensive overview of the region. Whether used as a companion text or a standalone volume, this work provides the historical and cultural context necessary for understanding the peoples inhabiting Arab world, Israel, Turkey, and Iran, since the early twentieth century. Linking past to present to future, it also ascertains the ongoing developmental trajectories of these societies, including their overall stability and prosperity. The chapters are clearly structured, and contain insightful case studies, illustrative photographs, and visualized data. They also end with discussion questions and annotated bibliographies to help spark further research. Among the rich topics covered are the following: Rural life Civil society and personal identities Economic challenges, oil legacies, environmental harm Religious movements, women and gender, and youth politics. The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa is written in an accessible way, prioritizing social, cultural and economic dimensions. As such this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the field and will be invaluable to students of Middle Eastern politics and society, as well as sociology, history, economics and anthropology.

Author : Inmaculada Szmolka
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474415293

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Political Change in the Middle East and North Africa by Inmaculada Szmolka Pdf

Taking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes have changed since the Arab Spring. It addresses a series of questions about political change in the context of the revolutions, upheavals and protests that have taken place in North Africa and the Arab Middle East since December 2010, and looks at the various processes have been underway in the region: democratisation (Tunisia), failed democratic transitions (Egypt, Libya and Yemen), political liberalisation (Morocco) and increased authoritarianism (Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria). In other countries, in contrast to these changes, the authoritarian regimes remain intact (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Arab United Emirates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9004101756

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Civil Society in the Middle East by Anonim Pdf

Author : Abbas Kadhim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136959660

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Governance in the Middle East and North Africa by Abbas Kadhim Pdf

Governance in the Middle East is topic of interest to scholars, activists and policy makers. The currently proposed book is intended to present the first comprehensive framework of the question of governance in the Middle East in its various forms and manifestations: political, economic, and government performance.

Author : Norton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004492936

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Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume 2 by Norton Pdf

Civil Society in the Middle East is a project of the Department of Politics and the Koverkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University. Project director is Augustus Richard Norton (Boston University). While there is wide disagreement about the outcome among those who follow events in the Middle East, there is little doubt that the regimes in the region are under increasing pressure from their citizens. In rich and poor states alike, incipient movements of men and women are demanding a voice in politics. Recent political developments in Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, even the future state of Palestine, clearly show the vitality and dynamism of civil society, the melange of associations, clubs, guilds, syndicates, federations, unions, parties and groups which provide a buffer between state and citizen and which are now so clearly at the forefront of political liberalization in the region. Civil Society in the Middle East, a two-volume set of papers providing an unusually detailed and rich assessment of contemporary politics within the Middle East, and in this sense alone, quite literally peerless, is the result of a project of the Department of Politics and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. Volume I contains contributions by Augustus Richard Norton, Raymond A. Hinnebusch, Laurie Brand, Muhammad Muslih, Mustafa Kamil al-Sayyid, Ghanim al Najjar and Neil Hicks, Eva Bellin, Jill Crystal, Saad al-Din Ibrahim, and Alan Richards.

Author : Benjamin Isakhan,Fethi Mansouri,Shahram Akbarzadeh
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Arab Spring, 2010-
ISBN : 0522861601

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The Arab Revolutions in Context by Benjamin Isakhan,Fethi Mansouri,Shahram Akbarzadeh Pdf

From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling several autocratic regimes that had held power for decades and ushering in a new climate of dissent and democratisation. The Arab Revolutions in Context seizes a unique opportunity to reflect on these seismic events, their causes and consequences, and the core issues facing the region as it moves forward. This volume is more than a collection of detailed thematic essays. It situates the Arab Revolutions within their broader contextual backgrounds--showing that a unique set of historical events, as well as local, regional and global dynamics, has converged to provide the catalyst that triggered the recent revolts-and also within a new conceptual framework. The argument here is that the Arab Revolutions pose a very specific challenge to conventional wisdom concerning democracy and democratisation in the Middle East. The Arab Revolutions in Context is the first volume of its kind to address the Arab Revolutions and the varying analyses, debates and discussions that they have stimulated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GPoT
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786054233212

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Towards a Better Life: How to Improve the State of Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Armstrong,Valeria Bello,Julie Gilson,Debora Spini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136888946

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Civil Society and International Governance by David Armstrong,Valeria Bello,Julie Gilson,Debora Spini Pdf

Annotation This title examines the increasing impact of nongovernmental organisations and civil society on global and regional governance, in relation to the UN, the IMF, the G8 and the WTO. The authors assess civil society interaction with the EU, Africa, East Asia and the Middle East.

Author : James N. Sater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134126453

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Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco by James N. Sater Pdf

Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East.

Author : Norton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004492592

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Civil Society in the Middle East, Volume 1 by Norton Pdf

Launched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East program has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political life through an exploration of civil society within the states of the region. This is the first of two volumes to be published by Brill; it contains original studies of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the prospects for democratization in the Arab world, the consequences of economic liberalization and contemporary Islamic thought on civil society and democracy. This first volume offers a wealth of new material on unions, political parties and professional syndicates, and other components of civil society, as the authors weigh the prospects for political reform in the Middle East, and provide readable yet richly informed assessments of state-society relations.

Author : Tareq Y. Ismael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813020980

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Middle East Politics Today by Tareq Y. Ismael Pdf

Accessible to students and useful to the expert, this up-to-date volume offers a comprehensive study of important and complicated issues in the contemporary Middle East. This account, covering all Middle Eastern countries, examines major trends in the history, politics, and economics of the region, with a special focus on events since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It emphasizes regional comparative groupings of states such as the Fertile Crescent, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Nile Valley, Turkey, and Iran.Tareq Ismael provides readers with an understanding of the forces that shape local and regional politics as well as a basis for how the region locates itself in international affairs. He looks at the new dynamics that have developed since the Gulf War, especially the decay of postcolonial state structures and the strength of American influence in politics. His account of each state stresses historical background, development of political institutions and processes, and socioeconomic issues and institutions.Considering forces local to particular areas, Ismael discusses such topics as terrorism, Islamic activism, the growth of state coercive agencies, and the subversion of democratic institutions and processes by regimes.

Author : Francesco Cavatorta,Vincent Durac
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136963384

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Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World by Francesco Cavatorta,Vincent Durac Pdf

The transition paradigm has traditionally viewed civil society activism as an essential condition for the establishment of democracy. The democracy promotion strategies of Western policy-makers have, therefore, been based on strengthening civil society in authoritarian settings in order to support the development of social capital -to challenge undemocratic regimes. This book questions the validity of the link between an active associational life and democratization. It examines civil society in the Arab world in order to illustrate how authoritarian constraints structure civil society dynamics in the region in ways that hinder transition to democracy. Building on innovative theoretical work and drawing on empirical data from extensive fieldwork in the region, this study demonstrates how the activism of civil society in five different Arab countries strengthens rather than weakens authoritarian practices and rule. Through an analysis of the specific legal and political constraints on associational life, and the impact of these on relations between different civic groups, and between associations and state authorities, the book demonstrates that the claim that civil society plays a positive role in processes of democratic transformation is highly questionable. Offering a broad and alternative vision of the state of civil society in the region, this book will be an important contribution to studies on Middle Eastern politics, democratization and civil society activism.

Author : Jillian Schwedler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1685852742

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Toward Civil Society in the Middle East? by Jillian Schwedler Pdf

An introduction to the major theoretical debates about civil society in the Middle East and to the vitality and significance of civil society in seventeen Middle Eastern countries.