Ben Ali on the Road to Pluralism in Tunisia
Author: al-Ṣādiq Shaʻbān
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
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Ben Ali's 'New Tunisia' (1987-2009)
Author: Steffen Erdle
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 3112208617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDie Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.
Ben Ali's Tunisia
Author: Anne Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0192868500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a wealth of new primary data, this book offers the first account of the internal regime factors that ultimately caused the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's long dictatorship in Tunisia during the Arab Uprisings. Anne Wolf's account challenges studies that focus on the role of mass mobilization alone, and demonstrates that in the last decade of Ben Ali's presidency, dissent within his ruling party - the Constitutional Democratic Rally - mounted to such an extent that followers began challenging their own powerbroker. The culmination of this was a secret coup d'état staged by regime figures against Ben Ali in January 2011, an event that has not previously been uncovered. Wolf proposes a new theory of power and contention within ruling parties in authoritarian regimes to explain how dictators seek to fortify their rule and foster party-political stability, but also when, why, and how they succumb to internal contention and with what effect.
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises
Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0691158126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA searching examination of the moral limits of political compromise When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace. But, as Avishai Margalit argues, there are moral limits to acceptable compromise even for peace. But just what are those limits? At what point does peace secured with compromise become unjust? Focusing attention on vitally important questions that have received surprisingly little attention, Margalit argues that we should be concerned not only with what makes a just war, but also with what kind of compromise allows for a just peace. Examining a wide range of examples, including the Munich Agreement, the Yalta Conference, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations, Margalit provides a searching examination of the nature of political compromise in its various forms. Combining philosophy, politics, and history, and written in a vivid and accessible style, On Compromise and Rotten Compromises is full of surprising new insights about war, peace, justice, and sectarianism.
Contested Politics in Tunisia
Author: Edwige Fortier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-30
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1108425321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia's authoritarian regime duringin the 2010-11 uprisings.
Political Islam in Tunisia
Author: Anne Wolf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0190869690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical Islam in Tunisia uncovers the secret history of Tunisia's main Islamist movement, Ennahda, from its origins in the 1960s to the present. Banned until the popular uprisings of 2010-11 and the overthrow of Ben Ali's dictatorship, Ennahda has until now been impossible to investigate. This is the first in-depth account of the movement, one of Tunisia's most influential political actors. Drawing on more than four years of field research, over 400 interviews, and access to private archives, Anne Wolf masterfully unveils the evolution of Ennahda's ideological and strategic orientations within changing political contexts and, at times, conflicting ambitions amongst its leading cadres. She also explores the challenges to Ennahda's quest for power from both secularists and Salafis. As the first full history of Ennahda, this book is a major contribution to the literature on Tunisia, Islamist movements, and political Islam in the Arab world. It will be indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces driving a key player in the country most hopeful of pursuing a democratic trajectory in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Transnational Islam and Regional Security
Author: Frederic Volpi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1317998464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates the impact of a new brand of transnational terrorism and political violence produced by radical Islamist groups from the Maghreb on the regional security dynamics. It describes the causes of the problems and the strategies devised by European and North African states in order to address it and details the successes and failures of co-operation between states and society on both shores of the Mediterranean. Investigating the grand security strategies that have been devised for the Mediterranean after the Cold War and after 9/11, the contributors focus on the role of police and military apparati in securitizing the new threats that have become prominent after 9/11, and the unintended consequences of these strategies. In addition, the contributors analyze the relationship between Islamist groups, the state and society and highlight some key causes of political violence and radicalism. They outline how a better use of the law, migration, and intercultural dialogue might provide useful alternatives or complements to the mostly securitarian strategies that are currently dominant in the region.
Europe and Tunisia
Author: Brieg Powel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-29
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1136994386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia’s specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia’s specificity. Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity – and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union’s Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.
World and Its Peoples
Author: Marshall Cavendish
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Published: 2006-09
Total Pages: 1712
ISBN-13: 9780761475712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eleven-volume guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries of the Middle East, western Asia and northern Africa.
The Iron Cage of Liberalism
Author: Daniel P. Ritter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199658323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the last forty years the world has witnessed the emergence and proliferation of a new political phenomenon - unarmed revolution. This book explores why some nonviolent revolutionary movements lead to unarmed revolution, and others result in devastating failure.
