Showing posts with label The Turkey Model And Democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Turkey Model And Democracy. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2012

Will The Iraq and Turkey Models Of Democracy Catch On In The Arab World?

The following is reposted with permission:

Are Iraq and Turkey Models for Democratization?

by Ofra Bengio
Middle East Quarterly
Summer 2012, pp. 53-62 (view PDF)

In the wake of the upheavals that have shaken the Arab world since December 2010, activists, politicians, and analysts have all been searching for new, democratic models of governance that could come into force in these lands. The cases of Iraq and Turkey are perhaps the most obvious choices to examine based on the notion that these are the only examples of functioning democracies within Muslim-majority nations of the Middle East.