Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

by Shadi Hamid

Book Overview

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than in the Middle East, where the uprisings of 2011 swept...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199314055
• ISBN13: 9780199314058
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"