Nathan J. Brown
Författare till When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics
Om författaren
Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is the author of "Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government "(2001), "The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt visa mer and the Gulf "(1997), and "Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle against the State "(1990). He received his BA from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Nathan J. Brown
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government (Suny Series… (2001) 8 exemplar
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge Middle East Studies) (1997) 8 exemplar
The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East: Regional Politics and External Policies (UCLA Center for Middle East… (2009) 5 exemplar
Lumbering State, Restless Society: Egypt in the Modern Era (Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics) (2021) 2 exemplar
Sunset for the Two-State Solution? 1 exemplar
The Palestinian reform agenda 1 exemplar
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The author loses sight of accountability by going into far too much detail, so the book isn't very readable. He uses quite a lot of specialized terminology which is probably transparent only to a small group of specialists. Even his final conclusions are formulated in opaque and confusing phrases such as "the analysis presented here demonstrates that the path to constitutionalism in the Arab world lies in insulating potentially autonomous state structures from the nominally democratic procedures effectively dominated by the executive" (p. 198). Even though I had read the preceding analysis I could not put a finger on what "potentially autonomous state structures" the author refers to, nor could I recall democratic procedures, nominal or not, receiving any attention in this book. In conclusion I think this book is suitable only for specialists in Arab politics, who might learn something from its case studies.… (mer)