Temptations of Power: Islamists & Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. By Shadi Hamid. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 280. ISBN 978-0-19931405-8

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the “end of history.” The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won. But what of ‘illiberal’ democracy – the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedom, and other norms...

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Main Author: Abdel Salam, El Fatih Abdullahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IIUM Press 2017
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/57468/1/57468_Temptations%20of%20Power.pdf

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