Non-Western Encounters With Democratization: Imagining Democracy After the Arab Spring

✍ Scribed by Christopher K. Lamont, Jan van Der Harst, Frank Gaenssmantel

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 256
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Non-Western Encounters with Democratization offers diverse perspectives on democracy and transition spanning the Middle East and North Africa to East Asia. This unique collection of essays, drawn from contextually rich case studies presents readers with a variety of non-western encounters with democracy and provides important insights into the dramatic political and social transformations in these regions over the past decades. The book offers a deeper understanding of democratization and challenges the image of western democracy as a universal model to which non-western societies aspire. Taking the events of the Arab Spring as the starting point, international contributors look at why the uprisings that rapidly spread across North Africa and the Middle East had a strong resonance in East Asia but failed to inspire similar revolts. Through direct engagement with non-western experiences of political transition the book demonstrates a unique coherence across two regions relatively under explored in democratization literature.

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