Introduction: democracy promotion in theory and practice; 1. Legal jurisdictions; 2. Electoral representation; 3. Patronizing women; 4. Denationalizing civic activism; Conclusions: political aid for justice, representation, equality, and freedom.
Details the effects of political aid in the Middle East by analyzing discursive and professional practices in four key subfields.
Sheila Carapico is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Richmond and Visiting Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. The author of Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of Activism in Modern Arabia (Cambridge University Press, 1998), she has also researched and written about Yemeni, Egyptian and Arab political activism; American foreign policy in the Middle East; and the politics of international political aid.
'Does political aid further transitions to democracy in practice?
Carapico addresses this question for nine Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) polities with projects as the unit of analysis …
Carapico concludes that democracy promotion is not only 'inherently
political', but also 'deeply paradoxical'. Summing up:
recommended.' R. G. Mainuddin, Choice
'[This book] provides a refreshing perspective on the promotion of
democracy and on politics of the Middle East. It analyzes the role
of North American, European, and other transnational agencies in
promoting human rights and democratization in the Middle East over
the last two decades. …Political Aid and Arab Activism ranks as one
of the most important works published on the involvement of Western
and other transnational agencies in Arab transitions from
authoritarianism.' Wanda Krause, Academic Council on the United
Nations System (www.acuns.org)
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