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

Preface Marina Ottaway 1. An Arab Democratic Spring? US Democracy Promotion Policy and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East Shahram Akbarzadehand Benjamin MacQueen Part 1: Coercive/Interventionist Democratisation 2.‘Democratisation’, Religious Extremism, Fragile States, and Insurgencies: Bush’s Legacies to Obama and the Challenges Ahead Juan Cole 3. The Americanisation of Democratic Theory: Some Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan William Maley Part 2: Avenues to Democratisation 4. Political Reconstruction, Democracy and Power-Sharing in Afghanistan and Iraq Benjamin MacQueen 5. Winning Hearts and Minds: US Promotion of a Democratic Islam James Piscatori 6. The Political Economy of Protection: Democratisation and the American Presence in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain Amy Holmes 7. Energy Security and Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: A Bush-Obama Continuum? Leanne Piggott Part 3: Case Studies8. Iraq: Elite Fragmentation, Islam and Democracy Amin Saikal 9. Mugged by Reality: Democracy Promotion and Egyptian Political Reform during the Bush Era, and the Options for President Obama Robert Bowker 10. Good Governance and Air Strikes: America’s Awkward Toolkit in YemenSarah Pillips 11. Future Patterns of US Engagement with Democratic Reform in the Middle East Amin Saikaland James Piscatori