Traditions of governance in North Africa.
The recent political convulsions in North Africa have usually been analysed as a binary confrontation between universalist political Islam and secularist democracy, with violent chaos as the price of failure. To a very large extent, this has been a reflection of analytical templates derived, respect...
| Publicado en: | Journal of North African Studies Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 722 - 735 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2015
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