Panel celebrating the publication of democratization and authoritarianism in the erab world edited by Larry Diamond and me and published by the Johns Hopkins university press. If im not mistaken, this is the 30th journal of democracy book at Johns Hopkins has published since the series began in 1993. These volumes, which mostly but not exclusively draw up on articles that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the wor world. It is a quarterly publication sponsored by the National Endowment for democracy. It has become a leading global forum for serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. Larry diamond, who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of todays discussion and i will limit myself here with just a few brief remarks mostly about the book itself. Today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine, the arab world is no
This event was hosted by the National Endowment for democracy in washington, d. C. The challenges of moving from what i call authoritarian rackets, protection rackets, democratic protection rackets, governance, and the paradigm itself focuses on the dynamic of the conflict and identity in the air of a political system, that paradigm is by no means limited to the cases of the arab world. Lets look at ukraine right now as an example, where the issue of identity politics and hypocrisy intersect and democracy. But i think the issues of identity conflict are especially precedent in the arab world for a variety of reasons, and its not something that we really expected in the sense that when the revolt started of course in tunisia in the rural area, not in part of the metropolitan capital but in the rural areas it was about a revolt searching for social and economic equality and dignity. And so many of the initial slogans in the rebellion not only in tunisia, i much prefer the notion of the a
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December 27, 2020
Rabbi Yotav Eliach interviews Dr. Hillel Fradkin
Recently the students of Rambam were treated to an interview between two noted Mideast experts. Principal of Rambam, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, who has taught Religious Zionism to thousands of students, has served and continues to serve in the IDF, and is the author of Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel, interviewed Dr. Hillel Fradkin, the director of the Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World at the Hudson Institute.
Rambam Mesivta Principal Interviews Dr. Hillel Fradkin
Dr. Fradkin is founder and co-editor of the Center’s Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, the leading journal on contemporary Islamism, and he is currently getting ready to publish The Best of Communities Created for Man: The Contemporary Sunni Shiite Conflict in Historical Perspective.