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Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East.(Book review)
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June 22, 2008
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Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East, by Dietrich Jung, ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 208 pages, $69.55, hardcover.
In the lively debate on democratization in the Arab Middle East, orientalists and modernization theorists have heavily relied on "Arab and Muslim exceptionalism" to argue that Islam is inherently incompatible with democracy. It is the controversial nature of this essentialist argument that has gathered together the authors of Democratization and Development: New Political Strategies for the Middle East, to offer an informative, if not convincing, alternative to the scholarly debate. In their critique, they employ the ...
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