Nathan J. Brown
Auteur de When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Nathan J. Brown
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government (Suny Series… (2001) 8 exemplaires
The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf (Cambridge Middle East Studies) (1997) 8 exemplaires
The Struggle over Democracy in the Middle East: Regional Politics and External Policies (UCLA Center for Middle East… (2009) 5 exemplaires
Lumbering State, Restless Society: Egypt in the Modern Era (Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics) (2021) 2 exemplaires
The Draft Party Platform of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Foray Into Political Integration or Retreat Into Old… 1 exemplaire
Sunset for the Two-State Solution? 1 exemplaire
The Palestinian reform agenda 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 59
- Popularité
- #280,813
- Évaluation
- 3.0
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 32
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.… (plus d'informations)