Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East by Shadi Hamid

Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

Shadi Hamid

288 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject g...

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