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An Emerging Arab Social Contract

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Summary, in English

While it is too early to speculate on the long-term results of the events, the revolutions have already discredited certain assumptions about the Arab world. The first are those assertions suggesting that Arab rulers have engaged their people in a golden bargain, where the people trade off their citizenship entitlements and democratic rights in exchange for the rulers providing welfare, safeguard national integrity, and/or stability. The second assertion is found in the works of some leading Western Academics who represented the 'Arab' as “culturally incapable of adjusting to the prerequisites and implications of modern state-building,” and considered

that “Arab culture is inherently opposed to fundamental ideals of modernity…”

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

13-17

Publication/Series

Energy & Geopolitical Risks

Volume

2

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MEES Economic Survey, MEES Economic Survey

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • Arab Spring
  • State-building
  • sociology
  • sociologi

Status

Published