This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in
the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on …

How do state-created institutions influence government-opposition relations during
prolonged economic crises? Different experiences in Morocco and Jordan challenge the …

In a detailed analysis of the continued survival of authoritarian governments in the Arab
world, this book uses Egypt as a case study to address the timely and complex issue of …

U JRING the last 25 years, Arab countries have experienced a number of major crises
leading to the erosion of the legitimacy of their ruling elites. These events dramatically …

This chapter faces the paradoxical challenge of using opposition as the independent
variable to explain the durability of the Arab state in the 1970s and 1980s. The argument …

While many observers of politics in the Arab world hold that the emergence of political
opposition would be a harbinger of democratization, this article argues that opposition can …

The Arab Spring occurred within the context of the unravelling of the dominant'ruling
bargain'that emerged across the Middle East in the 1950s. This is being replaced by a new …

Arab leaderships have been remarkably stable since the 1970s, particularly given the
frequency of military coups in preceding years. Nonetheless, the military remains a key force …

From the perspective of approaches focusing on political culture or social movements,
Jordan seems an unlikely candidate for political liberalization. Yet, it has experienced the …

This paper proposes that domestic political conflict presents opportunities for positive
change with long-term effects despite the “inherent plausibility” of its harmfulness. This …