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Of empires and citizens [electronic resource] : pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? / Amaney A. Jamal.

By: Jamal, Amaney A, 1970-.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.).ISBN: 1400845475 (ebk.); 9781400845477 (ebk.).Subject(s): Democratization -- Arab countries | Islam and politics -- Arab countries | Democratization -- Government policy -- United States | Anti-Americanism -- Arab countries | Electronic books | United States -- Foreign relations -- Arab countries | Arab countries -- Foreign relations -- United States | Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 1945-Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 320.917/4927 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? : the U.S. strategic approach to democracy -- Becoming Jordan and Kuwait: the making and consolidating of U.S. client regimes -- Islamist momentum in the Arab world: Jordan's Islamic Action Front and Kuwait's Islamic Constitutional Movement -- Engaging the regime through the lens of the United States: citizens' political preferences -- Support for democracy and authoritarianism: the geostrategic utility of cooperative leadership -- Morocco: support for the status quo -- Palestine and Saudi Arabia and the limits of democracy -- The influence of international context on domestic-level models of regime transition and democratic consolidation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: pro-American democracy or no democracy at all? : the U.S. strategic approach to democracy -- Becoming Jordan and Kuwait: the making and consolidating of U.S. client regimes -- Islamist momentum in the Arab world: Jordan's Islamic Action Front and Kuwait's Islamic Constitutional Movement -- Engaging the regime through the lens of the United States: citizens' political preferences -- Support for democracy and authoritarianism: the geostrategic utility of cooperative leadership -- Morocco: support for the status quo -- Palestine and Saudi Arabia and the limits of democracy -- The influence of international context on domestic-level models of regime transition and democratic consolidation.

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