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American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama

By Shahram Akbarzadeh (Editor), James Piscatori (Editor), Benjamin MacQueen (Editor), Amin Saikal (Editor)
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By Shahram Akbarzadeh (Editor), James Piscatori (Editor), Benjamin MacQueen (Editor), Amin Saikal (Editor)
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The recent "Arab spring", with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support. The recent popular uprisings threaten to...

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