Wither Arab 'republicanism'? The rise of family rule and the 'end of democratization' in Egypt, Libya and Yemen

Mediterranean Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Sadiki, Larbi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL CHANGE;

EGYPT; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; YEMEN;

EID: 77951191346     PISSN: 13629395     EISSN: 17439418     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629391003644827     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. In his iconoclastic work Al-Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldoun elaborates how sanguine ties or tribal solidarity produces a brand of quasi family politics that makes and un-makes power and dynastic rule. this finding by Ibn Khaldoun more than six hundred years ago seems to apply to Arab rule today, specifically in relation to the corrosive role of family and clan politics to 'republicanism'.
2. See Larbi Sadiki, Like Father, Like Son: Dynastic Republicanism in the Middle East (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Policy Outlook, 2009).
3. The articles by Abd Al-Halim Qandil in the pages of Al-Umma newspaper throughout 2007 and 2008, and in late 2009 the interview given by the former IAEA chief, Muhammad Al-Barad'i to Al-Shuruq newspaper, in which he expressed interest in contesting the presidency should the constitution be amended to ensure free and fair elections.