TY - JOUR
T1 - The ARAB Spring's constitutional indigestion: Has democracy failed in the Middle East?
AU - Coleman, Andrew Kenneth
AU - Maogoto, Jackson
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In 2013, 3 years after the advent of the `Arab Spring , there is still no single unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World. The unprecedented opportunity for reform and state building appears to have stalled with Islamist movements more concerned with questions of Islamic identity and religious ethics rather than constitutionalism. Incoming governments have lapsed back to the use of police power to curb dissent and protest thus raising the crucial questions: Have post-revolution events proven that the Middle East is incompatible with democracy? Is entrenching democracy in the Middle East failing?
AB - In 2013, 3 years after the advent of the `Arab Spring , there is still no single unifying political reform narrative in the Arab World. The unprecedented opportunity for reform and state building appears to have stalled with Islamist movements more concerned with questions of Islamic identity and religious ethics rather than constitutionalism. Incoming governments have lapsed back to the use of police power to curb dissent and protest thus raising the crucial questions: Have post-revolution events proven that the Middle East is incompatible with democracy? Is entrenching democracy in the Middle East failing?
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84905593613
U2 - 10.1007/s10991-014-9150-7
DO - 10.1007/s10991-014-9150-7
M3 - Article
SN - 0144-932X
VL - 35
SP - 105
EP - 134
JO - Liverpool Law Review
JF - Liverpool Law Review
IS - 2
ER -