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6 - The Politics of Democracy Aid after the Arab Uprisings

from Part III - Securing Democracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2022

Erin A. Snider
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University
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In the final chapter, I consider how the 2011 Arab uprisings challenged the strategies adopted by the United States and regimes in Egypt and Morocco. I examine shifting aid strategies from the United States and the response from former regime elites and emergent political actors. Drawing from interviews with diplomats and activists involved in transitional support and unreleased data, I consider how the ideas, institutions, and interests that supported a particular form of democracy aid for twenty-five years adjusted with the promise of political change. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the challenges these changes now pose for activists and emerging political actors in the region as well as policymakers in the United States and those embedded within the democracy bureaucracy in Washington, DC. The chapter’s final section revisits the questions raised at the outset of the book and discusses possible mechanisms for enhancing the effectiveness of democracy aid programs.

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Marketing Democracy
The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East
, pp. 181 - 201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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