Civil Society in the Middle East (New ed)

Launched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East Programme has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political life through an exploration of civil society within the states of the region.

This text, the first in a two-volume set, contains original studies of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as discussions of the prospects for democratization in the Arab world, the consequences of economic liberalization and contemporary Islamic thought on civil society and democracy.

It provides new material on unions, political parties and professional syndicates, and other components of civil society, as the authors weigh the prospects for political reform in the Middle East and provide informed assessments of state-society relations.