Temptations of power : Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East / Shadi Hamid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamid, Shadi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Democracy--Middle East--History--21st century.

Democracy.

Revolutions--Middle East--History--21st century.

Revolutions.

Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the ""end of history."" The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups to power. In Temptations of Power, Shadi Hamid draws on hundreds of interviews with leaders an

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Islamists in Transition; 2. Can Repression Force Islamist Moderation?; 3. The Promise of Politics; 4. The Turn to Repression; 5. Learning to Lose; 6. Chronicle of a Coup Foretold; 7. Illiberal Democrats; 8. A Tunisian Exception?; 9. The Past and Future of Political Islam; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-931407-1

0-19-931406-3

OCLC:

870994390