Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

by Shadi Hamid

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199314055

ISBN13:9780199314058

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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