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What does it mean to promote 'transitions to democracy' in the
Middle East? How have North American, European and multilateral
projects advanced human rights, authoritarian retrenchment or
Western domination? This book examines transnational programs in
Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria, the
exceptional cases of Palestine and Iraq, and the Arab region at
large during two tumultuous decades. To understand the
controversial and contradictory effects of political aid, Sheila
Carapico analyzes discursive and professional practices in four key
subfields: the rule of law, electoral design and monitoring,
women's political empowerment and civil society. From the
institutional arrangements for extraordinary undertakings such as
Saddam Hussein's trial or Palestinian elections to routine
templates for national women's machineries or NGO networks, her
research explores the paradoxes and jurisdictional disputes
confronted by Arab activists for justice, representation and
'non-governmental' agency.
Sheila Carapico's book on civic participation in modern Yemen makes a pathbreaking contribution to the study of political culture in Arabia. The author traces the complexities of Yemen's history over the past fifty years, considering its response to the colonial encounter and to years of civil unrest. Challenging the stereotypical view of conservative Arab Muslim society, she demonstrates how the country is actively seeking to develop the political, economic and social structures of the modern democratic state. This is an important book that promises to become the definitive statement on twentieth-century Yemen.
The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world,
popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a
regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity.
Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that
the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be
tolerated. These essays from Middle East Report-the leading source
of timely reporting and insightful analysis of the region-cover
events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. Written for a
broad audience of students, policymakers, media analysts, and
general readers, the collection reveals the underlying causes of
the revolts by identifying key trends during the last two decades
leading up to the recent insurrections. -- Indiana University Press
The 2011 eruptions of popular discontent across the Arab world,
popularly dubbed the Arab Spring, were local manifestations of a
regional mass movement for democracy, freedom, and human dignity.
Authoritarian regimes were either overthrown or put on notice that
the old ways of oppressing their subjects would no longer be
tolerated. These essays from Middle East Report the leading source
of timely reporting and insightful analysis of the region cover
events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen. Written for a
broad audience of students, policymakers, media analysts, and
general readers, the collection reveals the underlying causes of
the revolts by identifying key trends during the last two decades
leading up to the recent insurrections."
Sheila Carapico's book on civic participation in modern Yemen makes
an authoritative contribution to the study of political culture in
the Arabian peninsula. Relying on in-depth documentary and field
research, the author traces the political dynamics of recent years,
culminating in Yemeni unification, focuses on efforts to develop
the political, economic and social structures of a modern,
democratic government. Her wide-ranging analysis of the legal,
institutional and financial aspects of state building and of
popular dimensions of political liberalization, protest and
participation challenge the stereotypical view of conservative Arab
Muslim society. The political economy approach to the study which
reveals a surprising degree of 'activism in Arabia' also helps to
interpret the nature of civil society from a broad theoretical
perspective. This is an important book which promises to become the
definitive work on twentieth-century Yemen.
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