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Chasing After Huntington's Third Wave Of Democratization: The Middle East Under Change, Reem Awny Abuzaid
Chasing After Huntington's Third Wave Of Democratization: The Middle East Under Change, Reem Awny Abuzaid
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Escaping Huntington's three waves of democracy, the Middle East has become a phenomenon. Ever since, the Middle East scholars attempted extensively to rationalize the prevailing authoritarian regimes over the past four decades; a number of theories were proposed to address such a paradox. Studying authoritarianism has denied the Middle East academic society the chance to predict the current wave of political change that is being witnessed in the region. A draw back that could be believed to have left researchers with limited theoretical explanations for the on going experience, but that could always remain superficial. in fact a number of …