NON-WESTERN ENCOUNTERS WITH DEMOCRATIZATION
Non-Western Encounters with Democratization
Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring
Edited by
CHRISTOPHER K. LAMONT
JAN VAN DER HARST
FRANK GAENSSMANTEL
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Non-western encounters with democratization : imagining democracy after the Arab Spring / edited by Christopher K. Lamont, Jan van der Harst and Frank Gaenssmantel.
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ISBN 978-1-4724-3971-0 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-9849-9 (ebk) -- ISBN 978-1-3170-8685-7 (epub) 1. Democratization--Arab countries--Case studies. 2. Democratization--Middle East--Case studies. 3. Democratization--East Asia--Cast studies. 4. Arab Spring, 2010--Influence. I. Lamont, Christopher K., editor of compilation. II. Harst, J. van der (Jan), editor of compilation. III. Gaenssmantel, Frank, editor of compilation.
JQ1850.A91N66 2015
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Contents
Introduction
Imagining Democracy after the Arab Spring
Christopher K. Lamont, Frank Gaenssmantel and Jan van der Harst
Ccile Vandewoude
James Garrison
Sami Zemni
Sultan Mohammed Zakaria
Yasmine Jawad
Andrej Zwitter
Mieczysaw P. Boduszyski
Patricia M. Thornton
Daniel R. Hammond
Pieter Boele van Hensbroek
Herman Voogsgeerd
Alexandria Innes and Christopher K. Lamont
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Mieczysaw P. Boduszyski is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Pomona College in California. He is newly retired from the US Foreign Service, where he most recently served as a Public Affairs Officer in Libya. He also served in a variety of positions at US Embassies in Albania, Kosovo, Japan, and Egypt. His most recent publications include articles on Libya in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (2014) and Journal of Democracy (2013). He has published a number of articles on Balkan politics and international justice, and authored Regime Change in the Yugoslav Successor States: Divergent Paths toward a New Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He holds a BA from the University of California, San Diego, and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Pieter Boele van Hensbroek lectures in Development Studies and Political Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He studies political thought in non-Western societies and discussions on citizenship. He was editor of the African journal of philosophy Quest and works at Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG).
Frank Gaenssmantel is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen. He has previously held a position as Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies on Contemporary China (Centro di Alti Studi sulla Cina Contemporanea, CASCC) in Turin and taught at the School of Advanced International and Area Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. He received his PhD from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. His research interests include European and Chinese foreign policies and China-EU relations.
James Garrison is a University Assistant at the University of Vienna where he teaches courses on Classical Chinese Philosophy and American Transcendentalism while completing a dissertation dealing with Confucian, phenomenological, pragmatist and post-structuralist approaches to subject life (title: The Aesthetic Life of Power). Prior to this, he obtained his Masters degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa where he also pursued doctoral-level studies with leading comparative philosopher Roger Ames, served as Managing Editor of China Review International, and received awards for study at Hainan University, Peking University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work can be found in books including Sovereign Justice: Global Justice in a World of Nations (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011), Applied Ethics: Old Wine in New Bottles? (Sapporo: Hokkaido University, 2011), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbrgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Kant-Kongresses 2010 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013) and journals such as teorema and Frontiers of Philosophy in China.
Daniel R. Hammond is Lecturer in Chinese Politics and Society at the University of Edinburgh. During his PhD research, at the University of Glasgow, he spent time at Nankai University in Tianjin (2006) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (2007). His publications have been on social assistance in contemporary China focusing in particular on the urban resident minimum livelihood guarantee system. This has included studies at both national and local level. Other research interests include policy diffusion and entrepreneurship in China, animal welfare issues in China and how poverty is represented in contemporary Chinese society.
Jan van der Harst is Professor of European Integration, Department of International Relations and International Organization at the University of Groningen. He is also Academic Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies Groningen (CEASG), the Tsinghua-Groningen Joint Research Centre for China-EU Relations and the Dutch Studies Centre Fudan-Groningen. He has recently edited two volumes on China-EU relations: China and the European Union. Concord or Conflict? (2012, with Pieter Swierenga) and The European Sovereign Debt Crisis and China-EU Relations (2013, with Zhang Lihua).
Alexandria Innes is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of East Anglia. She received her MA in International Affairs from Marquette University in 2008 and her PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from the University of Kansas in 2011. She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at Northern Illinois University 20112012 and Assistant Professor at Cardinal Stritch University 20122013. Her current research is at the intersection of human rights and security studies, focusing on how people who do not have citizenship or immigration status experience international relations. Her work has appeared in
