Arabs and Democracy: Illusions of Change

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 69-83
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Many observers regarded 1999 as a year of progress for democracy in the Arab world. There is reason to doubt, however, whether any meaningful change has really occurred. 

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