Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East
(Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Book, I.B. Tauris
November 22, 2006
Author: Jeremy Jones, Former Joint Research Fellow, International Security Program/The Dubai Initiative, 2004–2007
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OVERVIEW
As the US demand for Western-style democracy in the Middle East grows ever more strained, Harvard Middle East expert Jeremy Jones travels through the region evaluating the prospects for change. He engages with diverse political cultures, from traditional assemblies in the Persian Gulf, to sophisticated multiconfessional politics in the Levant. Drawing on 25 years experience in the region, and hundreds of interviews with government officials, opposition leaders, grassroots activists and ordinary people, he finds real momentum towards democratic reform, but concludes that to be successful and durable, it must be pursued through local political cultures, not in spite of them. With a new perspective on a troubled region, his critique of US policy argues that promoting a “one-size-fits-all” democratic model has been misguided, and ultimately counter-productive.
Jeremy Jones runs a strategic research consultancy based in Oxford, UK. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and is a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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Document Length: 224 pp.
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