Understanding Tahrir Square: What Transitions Elsewhere Can Teach Us about the Prospects for Arab Democracy

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In the early days of the Arab Spring, the world looked on breathlessly as democracy movements swept across a part of the world long considered a bastion of authoritarianism. Tunisia. Then Egypt. And Libya. Optimists saw a democratic wave gathering steam, becoming an inexorable force for greater freedom and political participation. But achieving democratic change is never easy.This title looks at the experience of Third Wave democratizers elsewhere around the globe, in order to improve our understanding of the prospects for Arab democracy.

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Masterfully written, without theoretical rigidity. . . . this book is a judicious post-modernist project, replete with evidence construed as a note of optimism against the bloody tribulations of the 'Arab Spring'.Comparative Politics

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Stephen R. Grand is a nonresident senior fellow with the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World (which he directed for six years), housed within the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was director of the Middle East Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute. He also has been a scholar-in-residence at American University in Washington, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of programs at the German Marshall Fund, and a professional staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.