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1. Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule

   A Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Francesco Cavatorta

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change. This book moves beyond traditional notions of civil society and explains the complexity of state-society relations in authoritarian contexts outside the framework...

   To Be Published September 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World

   The Dynamics of Activism

   By Francesco Cavatorta, Vincent Durac

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

   The transition paradigm has traditionally viewed civil society activism as an essential condition for the establishment of democracy. The democracy promotion strategies of Western policy-makers have, therefore, been based on strengthening civil society in authoritarian settings in order to support...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
3. The Foreign Policies of the European Union and the United States in North Africa

   Diverging or Converging Dynamics?

   Edited by Francesco Cavatorta, Vincent Durac

   The war in Iraq seemed to bring to a head underlying differences between the United States and the vast majority of European countries regarding the best means to maintain international peace and stability. The unilateralism of the United States as opposed to the multilateralism of the European...

   Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
4. Democratization in the Muslim World

   Changing Patterns of Authority and Power

   Edited by Frederic Volpi, Francesco Cavatorta

   Series: Democratization Studies

   This book examines the role that political Islam plays in processes of democratization in the Muslim world, detailing the political processes that facilitate the collective learning of democratic ways of solving the practical problems of those polities. Democratization in the Muslim World...

   Published December 3rd 2007 by Routledge