Abstract
Despite the dramatic increase in the international democracy promotion efforts toward the Arab Middle East in the period between the September 11, 2001 attacks and the Arab uprisings in 2010, the authoritarian regimes in the region have paradoxically become more entrenched. This paper tries to analyze this puzzling development by taking democracy promotion toward the Arab Middle East as an international regime. By examining the constitutive norms, procedures, and the institutions of this international democracy promotion regime, I argue that the weak character of the regime produced what I call ‘reverse emergent properties’—contradictory systemic effects that cannot be reduced to its individual parts, in this case the individual democracy promotion initiatives.
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democracy promotion Arab Middle East democracy authoritarianism international regimesShare
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- Authors: İsmail Yaylacı, Assist. Prof., Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University
- DOI: dx.doi.org/10.12658/M0724
- Year: 2023 (December) / Volume: 13 / Issue: 4
- Page: 198-215
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