Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy

This book provides an in-depth analysis of public opinion patterns among Muslims, particularly in the Arab world. On the basis of data from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the Arab Opinion Index, it compares the dynamics of Muslim opinion structures with global publics and arrives at social scientific predictions of value changes in the region. Using country factor scores from a variety of surveys, it also develops composite indices of support for democracy and a liberal society on a global level and in the Muslim world, and analyzes a multivariate model of opinion structures in the Arab world, based on over 40 variables from 12 countries in the Arab League and covering 67% of the total population of the Arab countries. While being optimistic about the general, long-term trend towards democracy and the resilience of Arab and Muslim civil society to Islamism, the book also highlights anti-Semitic trends in the region and discusses them in the larger context of xenophobia in traditional societies. In light of the current global confrontation with radical Islamism, this book provides vital material for policy planners, academics and think tanks alike.

Presents an in-depth analysis of Muslim and Arab opinion patterns Offers a comparative empirical investigation based on data from the World Values Survey, the Arab Barometer Project and the Arab Opinion Index Covers a wide range of countries and variables Provides vital material for policy planners, academics and think tanks in the current global confrontation with radical Islamism

Auteur
Leonid E. Grinin, Ph.D. is research professor and the director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, as well as the deputy director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting and senior research professor at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 360 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 25 monographs.
Andrey V. Korotayev, Ph.D. is head of the Laboratory for Destabilization Risk Monitoring of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, senior research professor of the Oriental Institute and Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, senior research professor of the International Laboratory for Political Demography of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, as well as a professor at the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University. He has authored and co-authored over 300 scholarly publications.
Arno Tausch, Ph.D. is adjunct professor of political science at Innsbruck University and associate professor of economics, Corvinus University, Budapest. He also served as an Austrian diplomat abroad and was counselor for labor and migration at the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw, 19921999. He authored or co-authored books and articles for major international publishers and journals, among them 18 books in English, two in French, eight books in German, and over eighty articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Contenu
1.Introduction. Why Arab Spring Became Arab Winter?.- 2. The Middle East in the World System Context in Comparison with India and China: Some Backgrounds of Islamism in the MENA Region.- 3. Islamism and its Role in Modern Islamic Societies.- 4. Perturbations in the Arab World during the Arab Spring: A General Analysis.- 5.Arab Spring, Revolutions, and the Democratic Values.- 6.Background.- 7.Methods and Data for the Analysis.- 8.What We Really Know about Mass Support for Radical Islamism as the Ideology of Islamist Terrorism.- 9.The Arab World Between the Arab Spring and Support for Terrorism What We Know from Opinion Research and What the Multivariate Can Tell Us.- 10. The Solitude of the West in the Fight Against Terror What We Know from Opinion Research and What the Multivariate Analysis Can Tell Us.- 11. Islamism, Arab Spring and the Future of Democracy.- 12. Islamism, Arab Spring and the Future of Democracy.