Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings: Between people power and state power

Abstract

and between statist and non-statists Islamists, for better (e.g. Tunisia) and for worse (e.g. Egypt).

Eternity clauses in post-conflict and post-authoritarian constitution-making: Promise and limits

“…The constitution's capacity to balance forces within Tunisian society may be tested sooner than its drafters may have expected, however. Threats to the delicate bargains struck in the constitution already loom, such as the rise of the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia, spurred by Salafism's appeal to marginalised groups, 157 or the parliamentary crisis triggered by the November 2015 resignation of members of parliament due to fears that the president was trying to institute a new dynasty. 158 How Tunisia's constitution fares in the face of such challenges will tell us much, not just about the utility of eternity clauses in transitional constitution-making, but about the capacity of constitutions themselves to safeguard the political settlements which made them possible in the first place.…”

Политические Аспекты Современного Исламизма

“…Опыт мусульманского мира, по крайней мере с начала 2000-х годов, демонстрирует провал крайнего секуляризма в таких странах, как Египет, Ирак, Иран, Тунис и Турция. Напротив, Индонезия и Малайзия являются позитивным примером вклада, который ислам может внести во внутригосударственные дела в рамках демократического строя, объединяющего различные религиозные, культурные и этнические идентичности [Weiss 2010;Rahim 2011;Hossain 2016;Ugur 2017].…”

Understanding regime divergence in the post‐uprising Arab states

“…Tunisia was the exception where the ability of secularists and the Islamist al‐Nahda to share power enabled Tunisia's democratic transition. The decline of modernist Islamists elsewhere shifted the intra‐Islamist balance of power to trans‐state jihadist movements inspired by al‐Qaida which found new opportunities in failed states resulting from civil war, as was exemplified in Syria (Volpi & Stein, ).…”