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Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Conflict Resolution and the Explanatory Capacity of Political Culture -- 2. Lebanon and the Taef Agreement -- 3. Algeria and the Civil Concord -- 4. Conflict Resolution and the Perpetuation of Elite Structures in the Arab World -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Copyright.

De facto states are an anomalous, but well-discussed feature of international politics. The questions they raise for understandings of sovereignty and statehood are well advanced, but less understood are the internal dynamics of these entities particularly in relation to the development of democratic, participatory political institutions. Through an examination of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq from 1992 to 2014 this article will explore patterns of democratization in de facto states. Unpacking a dilemma around trends toward both exclusionary and inclusionary politics in de facto states, it is argued here that there is a positive relationship between de facto statehood and democratization. However, contrary to current views, this is the result of internal pressures and elite agency as opposed to normative pressures at the international level.

Framing the debate on Islam and human rights / Shahram Akbarzadeh and Benjamin MacQueen -- The reformulation of Islamic thought on gender rights and roles / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- Women's rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : the contribution of secular-oriented feminism / Rebecca Barlow -- Islamic reformism and human rights in Iraq : gender equality and religious freedom / Benjamin MacQueen and Shahram Akbarzadeh -- The reluctant partnership between the Muslim brotherhood and human rights NGOs in Egypt / Benjamin MacQueen -- Human rights in Afghanistan / William Maley -- Competing domains of control : Islam and human rights in Malaysia / Shamsul Amri Bin Baharuddin -- Muslims in Malaysia : notions of human rights reform, and their contexts / Patricia Martinez -- Indonesian Islamist perspectives on human rights / Greg Fealy