American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: From Bush to Obama

American Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: from Bush to Obama, co-edited by Professor Amin Sakal, Director of the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies, explores the contradictions in American Democracy promotion in the Middle East in the current era.

The recent ‘Arab spring’, with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. American DemocracyPromotion in the Middle East: from Bush to Obama, discusses the principles that underpin the promotion of democracy by the US, examines the debate surrounding US policy formation, and the application of US democracy promotion in specific cases.

The book concludes by assessing the likely future patterns of US engagement with democratic reform in the Middle East.

American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama