The success of democratization in post Arab spring societies
Kirkova, R., & Milosevska, T.
Abstract:
During the third wave of democratization the expectations were directed to the Arab world. Nothing happened even in the time of Western values penetration in the Middle East after the attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. When the hope was gone a serial of events hit the Arab world in the name of democratization. This process symbolically called Arab Spring that has started in Tunisia was understood as a will of people for the establishment of national sovereign state and final break with autocratic regimes. Those revolutions in this sense are similar and by that the further expectation should be similar. But there is a huge difference which will not take along the same effects at the end. That is a matter of resistant theory and the way of how those revolutions start and which of them use violent means. In our view the revolution in Tunisia has more chances to develop as democratic states instead of Egypt and Libya. The second part of this paper is going to discuss what kind of democracy those states have potential to achieve. Our argumentation in not in favor of liberal democracy. The expectation for democratization of the post Arab spring societies are certainly not excluded, but, with a huge effort of the democratic powers that exist in those societies, assistance provided by Western civilization and with the absence of civil society, expectations towards the democratization of Arab world do not go beyond the creation of hybrid democracies acceptable to Arab tradition and culture.
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APA citation
- Kirkova, R., & Milosevska, T. (2014). The success of democratization in post Arab spring societies. International Journal of Social Sciences, III(1), 29–40.