Dictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering
away. Today, most dictators organize multiparty elections. The Politics of Uncertainty …

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable
water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

A comprehensive assessment of the nature and evolving character of authoritarian regimes,
their changing character and the main theoretical explanations of their incidence, character …

This volume inquires into the working mechanisms, the inner logic, and the durability of
authoritarian rule in Arab countries. Written by leading American, European, and Arab …

SINCE THE FALL OF COMMUNISM, and with the “Third Wave” of democratization engulfing
much of the world (Huntington 1991), academics and activists have been preoccupied with …

Zusammenfassung Dieses Buch identifiziert als Ursache dauerhaft autoritärer Herrschaft in
der arabischen Welt eine Kombination aus sozialen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen …

This paper proposes and illustrates a framework for analysis of the recent events in Middle
Eastern and North African countries (the so-called Arab Spring) by bringing into dialogue …

The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the
Middle East. The small states covered in this volume—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and …

In most regions of the world, federalism (territorial autonomy) is used as a successful
institutional means of dispersing political power and accommodating ethnic, religious, and …