Political Civility in the Middle East

Name: Political Civility in the Middle East
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Political Civility in the Middle EastAuthor(s): Frederic Volpi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138209367, 978-1138209367\nSynopsis\nContemporary debates about civility are shaped by the dominant liberal and secular narratives of a peaceful world of sovereign nation-states. For contemporary scholars and policy makers, the challenge is to insert meaningfully the political evolution of the Middle East in the dominant liberal-democratic discourse about the current international order without invoking ill-conceived notions of Islamic exceptionalism.\n\nThe analyses gathered in this book challenge conventional western perspectives on civility as an expression of state-guaranteed free association in a non-violent space of discourse and behaviour. Considering the articulation of civil and civilized state-society relations in contemporary Middle Eastern polities, this book proposes both conceptual and empirical insights.