Toward Civil Society in the Middle East? : : A Primer / / ed. by Jillian Schwedler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Bellin, Eva,; Brand, Laurie,; Carapico, Sheila,; Crystal, Jill,; Doron, Gideon,; Entelis, John P.,; Gole, Nilùfer,; Hermassi, Abdelbaki,; Hicks, Neil,; Hinnebusch, Raymond A.,; Humadi, Zuhair,; Ibrahim, Saad Eddin,; Kamil al-Sayyid, Mustapha,; Kazemi, Farhad,; Maghraoui, Abdeslam,; Messarra, Antoine,; Mosely Lesch, Ann,; Moussalli, Ahmad,; Muslih, Muhammad,; Norton, Augustus Richard,; Odhibat, Atef,; Richards, Alan,; Roy, Sara,; Schwedler, Jillian,; Toprak, Binnaz,; al-Najjar, Ghanim,
• HerausgeberIn: Schwedler, Jillian,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (64 p.)

An introduction to the major theoretical debates about civil society in the Middle East and to the vitality and significance of civil society in seventeen Middle Eastern countries.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction: Civil Society and the Study of Middle East Politics
• 1 The Future of Civil Society in the Middle East
• 2 Modern Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses on Civil Society, Pluralism, and Democracy
• 3 Democratization in the Arab World
• 4 Economic Pressures for Accountable Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
• 5 Civil Society and the Authoritarian Temptation in Algerian Politics
• 6 Algeria's Short-Lived Experiment with Electoral Politics
• 7 A Civil Society in Egypt?
• 8 Civil Society and Iranian Politics
• 9 Civil Society Under the Ba'th in Iraq
• 10 Two Civil Societies and One State: Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel
• 11 "In the Beginning Was the State..." Civil Society in Jordan
• 12 Civil Society in Jordan: A Preliminary Study
• 13 Civil Society in Kuwait
• 14 Civil Society in the Arab Gulf States
• 15 Civil Society Against the War System: The Lebanese Case
• 16 Palestinian Civil Society
• 17 Civil Society in the Gaza Strip
• 18 Early Elections in the West Bank and Gaza
• 19 The Destruction of Civil Society in the Sudan
• 20 State, Civil Society, and Political Change in Syria
• 21 Civil Society in Formation: Tunisia
• 22 Notes on Civil Society in Tunisia
• 23 Civil Society in Turkey
• 24 Authoritarian Secularism and Islamic Participation: The Case of Turkey
• 25 Yemen Between Civility and Civil War
• Conclusion: Civil Society and Political Reform in the Middle East
• Bibliography
• About the Contributors
• About the Book