Arabs and Democracy: A Record of Failure

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.

Middle Eastern autocracies rely ever more on repression of both their Islamist and secular critics, and therefore increasingly fear that any opening will be uncontrollable. Is there a way out?

The incentives created by competitive elections in a number of Muslim-majority countries are fueling a political trend that roughly resembles the rise of Christian Democracy in twentieth-century Europe