Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World

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Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World
Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government

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Nathan J. Brown - Author

SUNY series in Middle Eastern Studies
SUNY series in Near Eastern Studies

Price: $65.50
Hardcover - 260 pages

Release Date: October 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5157-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5157-1

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 260 pages

Release Date: October 2001

ISBN10: 0-7914-5158-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5158-8

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Summary

Uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian political regimes.

The collapse of authoritarian regimes and the global resurgence of liberal democracy has led to a renewed interest in constitutions and constitutionalism among scholars and political activists alike. This book uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian regimes and assesses the degree to which such constitutions can be used in the effort to make the regimes more accountable.

"Brown understands how law fits in with the burning issues of Middle Eastern politics. He demonstrates how rulers can use lawand constitutions to strengthen their rule, while most of the existing literature focuses on how they restrict central power. This is particularly interesting in light of the last ten years of liberalization in the Third World, where rulers in Africa, for example, have had to figure out how to meet International Monetary Fund demands for a degree of political liberalization without actually giving up power." -- Jill Crystal, author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf: Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar

Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf and Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt: The Struggle Against the State.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Part One The Purposes of Arab Constitutions

Introduction: Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World

1. Early Constitutional Documents in the Middle East

2. Constitutions and Arab Monarchies

3. Republican Constitutions

Conclusion to Part One: The Purposes of Arab Constitutions

Part Two Constitutional Possibilities in the Arab World

Introduction: Constitutions and Constitutionalism

4. Parliamentarism and Constitutional Possibilities in the Arab World

5. Judicial Review in Arab Constitutional Systems

6. Islamic Constitutionalism

Conclusion: Lessons from the Arab Constitutional Experience

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

Constitutional Studies
Middle East Politics
Middle East Studies
Political Science

39816/39817(MR//)

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