CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE ARAB WORLD
CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE ARAB WORLD
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阿拉伯世界的公民社会和民主化
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2005
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S. Yom
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S. Yom
本文攻击了“公民社会”的论点，这是当今阿拉伯世界政治分析的一个普遍假设，它认为积极的公民行动主义可以产生民主的政权更迭。首先，分析家们在定义阿拉伯背景下的公民社会方面几乎没有达成共识。其次，最近结社部门的扩张更多地是专制统治者有控制的自由化战略的一个功能拉特而不是其目标的削弱，这意味着阿拉伯国家在镇压的意志和能力方面仍然强大。最后，观察家们在支持公民社会作为解决中东顽固独裁主义的答案时应该表现出谨慎。
This article attacks the “civil society” thesis, a prevailing assumption of political analysis toward the Arab world today, which argues that vigorous civic activism can generate democratic regime change. First, analysts have reached little consensus in defining civil society in the Arab context. Second, the recent expansion of the associational sector is more a function of autocratic rulers’ strategy of controlled liberalization rath er than its objective weakening, which means that Arab states remain robust in their will and capacity to repress. Ultimately, observers should exude caution in their endorsement of civil society as the answer to stubborn authoritarianism in the Middle East.