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Author:

Jamal, Amaney A., 1970-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xiv, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Democratization--Arab countries.
Islam and politics--Arab countries.
Democratization--Government policy--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Arab countries.
Arab countries--Foreign relations--United States.
Anti-Americanism--Arab countries.
Arab countries--Politics and government--1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0691149658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691149653 (pbk. : alk. paper)
069114964X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691149646 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)780063855

LCCN:

2012008057

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)