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The origins of humanitarian intervention -- Civilization and power : developing the colonial paradigm -- Deconstructing the concepts of humanity and human nature -- The responsibility to protect, humanitarian intervention, and neocolonial policies -- Anticolonial nationalism and Arab nationalism -- The system of Arab states and the persistence of traditional social structures -- Colonial law and the formation of the nation-state -- Democracy in Islam and Western democracy : convergences and divergences -- Tunisia and Egypt : two constitutional models -- The Arab springs : an analysis of its roots and causes -- Democratization and development in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean area.

The Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of protests and rebellions, and a process of regime change and democratization is sweeping the Arab world, but marginally touching women's issues in Kuwait. While Arab women in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan, and Syria are active participants and co-beneficiaries of the process of change, Kuwaiti women have lost their electoral gains made in 2009 in the latest elections held in February of 2012. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of Arab Spring on women in Kuwait, and their continued struggle for political participation in the country. It will also highlight the accomplishments of the women's movement and its inability to utilize the general atmosphere supportive of women's rights in Kuwait to maintain its parliamentary representation in the Kuwaiti National Assembly.

2011 schien in der arabischen Welt eine neue, demokratische Zeit anzubrechen. Der ägyptische Aufstand gegen Mubarak auf dem Kairoer Tahrir-Platz war dafür ein besonders starkes Signal. Heute sitzen viele der damaligen Aktivisten im Gefängnis, alte und neue Diktatoren sind an der Macht, Millionen Menschen fliehen vor Bürgerkrieg, Hoffnungslosigkeit und den Mördern des sogenannten Islamischen Staates. Julia Gerlach hat Aktivisten der Revolution, Islamisten, Politiker und ganz normale Menschen in der Region über Jahre begleitet und befragt. So gelingt ihr eine ebenso persönliche wie informative Beschreibung der Ereignisse, die zum Scheitern der hoffnungsvollen Anfänge führten. Ein spannender, differenzierter Einblick in die jüngste arabische Geschichte, die uns mehr denn je betrifft. Jahrgang 1969, Politik- und Islamwissenschaftlerin. 2008-2015 berichtete sie als Korrespondentin für Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau und Focus aus Kairo über die Arabische Welt. Autorin mehrerer Sachbücher zur aktuellen Entwicklung in der Region, zur Jugendkultur und zum Islam in Deutschland, u.a . »Zwischen Pop und Dschihad -Muslimische Jugendliche in Deutschland« (Ch. Links Verlag, 2006) und »Wir wollen Freiheit - Der Aufstand der Arabischen Jugend« (Herder-Verlag, 2011).

Introduction -- The uprising in Egypt mobilising events across borders -- The emerging Egyptian emigration state : Egypt's multifaceted approach to relate to its citizens abroad -- Egyptian migration to Europe : an Egyptian diaspora? -- Managing immigration in Vienna and Paris : a comparison -- A typology of transnational activists -- Transnational political networks, strategies and ideas in Paris -- Transnational political networks, strategies and ideas in Vienna -- The local and the distant : reconfiguring diaspora politics -- Conclusion.

The hope and despair surrounding the Afro-Arab Spring in North Africa has only begun to be played out in regional and global politics. And the call for an African renaissance that followed the miraculous political transition in South Africa is, twenty years later, viewed with similar ambiguity. What is clear is that current developments in Africa, north and south, promise something markedly different from what has prevailed at any point since the dawn of the African independence movements of the 1950s and 60s. But the continent's own identity remains unresolved, posing the question whether and how its multiple and divergent experiences can be understood and perhaps woven into a basis for unity. Contributors to this volume explore whether or not events north of the Sahara and on the southern tip of Africa can be catalysts for change in other parts of the continent. Chapters assesses the nature of political resistance, revolution, and transition in North and Southern Africa, addressing critical factors--economics, culture, gender, theology--that reveal the promises and perils of African reform. Includes a foreword by former South African president Thabo Mbeki