{"product_id":"export-of-democracy-to-the-arab-world-von-franco-burgio","title":"Export of democracy to the arab world","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Other International Politics Topics, grade: 18\/20, Vrije University Brussel (Université Libre de Bruxelles), course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: Western Initiatives in the last years and especially in the aftermath of 11 September 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emultiplied and intensified (e.g. the U.S. proposal of a Greater Middle East Initiative, Barcelona\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProcess by the EU) in order to bring democracy to a region which by any definition has the Arab\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorld at its core and which in comparison to Eastern Europe and Latin America seems reluctant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto follow the common trend of establishing representative democracies as form of government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides the ¿exportation¿ efforts also internal Arab political discourse generally endows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemocracies with a virtually talismanic quality capable of solving all outstanding problems, as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAl-Azmeh rightly points out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Arab Word is stretching from Morocco in the west to Oman in the east including a variety of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifferent state structures (small city states like Kuwait , large states like Libya, extremely rich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand extremely poor regions)3 and is populated by heterogeneous ethnic groups (large Berber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eminorities in the Mahgreb and Kurdish, Turkic and Armenian minorities in the Mashreq).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever big the differences may be two common nominators can doubtless be identified: Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand a democracy deficit . The questions arising are obvious. Is the message of the prophet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eresponsible that no stabile democratic government is in sight in the Arab World ? Is the deficit in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edemocratic ruling indeed a cultural and religious problem ? Is the Koran compatible with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econcepts of democracy ?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640148493\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAn essay on the compatibility of islam and democracy\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640148493","offer_id":58994582356293,"sku":"9783640148493","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_d6a099d3-ce0a-40d2-8c59-76051998f7d9.jpg?v=1787979478","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/export-of-democracy-to-the-arab-world-von-franco-burgio","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}