Publication

This volume focuses on past (and successful) socio-political transformations and highlights the lessons they provide the turbulent states of the Southern Mediterranean region. The text particularly focuses on 1) Spain’s transition to democracy; 2) the role of religion in transition processes; 3) the status of South Africa 20 years after its self-transformation; 4) Indonesia’s path to liberal democracy; 5) the role of state powers and constitution drafting in North Africa’s post-revolutionary transitions; 6) the constitutional, economic and social reforms that have occurred in Morocco; 7) the post-revolutionary dilemmas that now exist in Egypt and Libya; 8) the roles of identity politics and the nation state in an increasingly non-Western world; and 9) democratic values and state interests in the United States and Egypt after the Arab uprisings.