Profil Kitap Where Was the Error? Why Has Democracy Failed in the Middle East?

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, while european imperialism was withdrawing from the middle east, hopes of independence, democratization, and building a better future arose among the local people. Moreover, leaders who cared about social and economic development, such as iran's prime minister muhammad musaddik and egypt's president gamal abdel nasser, also won the public's sympathy. However, this optimistic atmosphere didn't last long, and the regional authority Slipper was caught in the crossfire of competing superpowers and proxy wars. What went wrong when a historical opportunity was seized? The arab world's most prominent leader at the time, musaddik, who wanted to improve the welfare of his people by nationalizing iran's oil, and in fact iran's first democratic government, was overthrown in 1953 with a cia-backed coup. the united states followed a black propaganda campaign that demonized the Leather century. Behind these interventions, which the us tried to legitimatize with the label of “fight against communism”, was the desire to integrate the middle east into global capital and financial markets.

Those who approach this strategic geography with a cost-benefit analysis, while making their calculations according to material measurements, the price paid by the region was serious loss of life, wasted human and economic resources, uninterrupted crises and decades of stay away from democratic governance.

Fawaz a., professor of international relations at the london school of economics.

Gerges explores how the history of the middle east could have been different if, after world war ii, the power centers in the us, in particular, had promoted independent leaders and their people instead of supporting monarchs and autocrats in the middle east, or even just not hindered them. Contrary to bernard lewis, who largely attributed the inability of democratic institutions to gain traction in the middle east to the region's social and cultural characteristics, "where was the real mistake? He asks.

product name: where was the error? Why did democracy fail in the middle east? Product code: 9786256767768 author: fawaz a.

gerges publication year: 2026 cover type: cardboard cover page number: 352 paper type: 2. Dough turner

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