Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms...
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| description | In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.”
The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of
‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through
the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom,
and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere
has 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. ... |
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| spelling | iium-574682017-07-19T07:28:26Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/ Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi JC Political theory In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere has 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. ... IIUM Press 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/1/57468_Temptations%20of%20Power.pdf Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi (2017) Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8. Intellectual Discourse, 25 (1). pp. 275-290. ISSN 0128-4878 E-ISSN 2289-5639 http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/1001/694 |
| spellingShingle | JC Political theory Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title | Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a
New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title_full | Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a
New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title_fullStr | Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a
New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a
New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title_short | Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a
New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8 |
| title_sort | temptations of power: islamists & illiberal democracy in a
new middle east. by shadi hamid. new york, oxford: oxford
university press, 2014, pp. 280. isbn 978-0-19931405-8 |
| topic | JC Political theory |
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