Arab Constitutionalism
Title | Arab Constitutionalism PDF eBook |
Author | Zaid Al-Ali |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2021-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110842970X |
An insider's account and analysis of the largest concentration of constitutional reform since the end of the cold war.
Law and Revolution
Title | Law and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Nimer Sultany |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198768893 |
What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What role do constitutions play in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or clash? Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting. The book urges a rethinking of major categories in political, legal, and constitutional theory in light of the Arab Spring. The book is a novel and comprehensive examination of the constitutional order that preceded and followed the Arab Spring in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, Oman, and Bahrain. It also provides the first thorough discussion of the trials of former regime officials in Egypt and Tunisia. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including an in-depth analysis of recent court rulings in several Arab countries, the book illustrates the contradictory roles of law and constitutions. The book also contrasts the Arab Spring with other revolutionary situations and demonstrates how the Arab Spring provides a laboratory for examining scholarly ideas about revolutions, legitimacy, legality, continuity, popular sovereignty, and constituent power.
Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring
Title | Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam After the Arab Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer Grote |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 993 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0190627646 |
Constitutionalism, Human Rights, and Islam after the Arab Spring offers a comprehensive analysis of the impact that new and draft constitutions and amendments - such as those in Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, and Tunisia - have had on the transformative processes that drive constitutionalism in Arab countries. This book aims to identify and analyze the key issues facing constitutional law and democratic development in Islamic states, and offers an in-depth examination of the relevance of the transformation processes for the development and future of constitutionalism in Arab countries. Using an encompassing and multi-faceted approach, this book explores underlying trends and currents that have been pivotal to the Arab Spring, while identifying and providing a forward looking view of constitution making in the Arab world.
Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World
Title | Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan J. Brown |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 079148968X |
The collapse of authoritarian regimes and the global resurgence of liberal democracy has led to a renewed interest in constitutions and constitutionalism among scholars and political activists alike. This book uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian regimes and assesses the degree to which such constitutions can be used in the effort to make the regimes more accountable.
Arab Constitutionalism
Title | Arab Constitutionalism PDF eBook |
Author | Zaid Al-Ali |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 333 |
Release | 2021-08-19 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1108610935 |
After the 2011 uprisings started in Tunisia and swept across the Arab region, more than a dozen countries amended their constitutions, the greatest concentration of constitutional reform processes since the end of the Cold War. This book provides a detailed account and analysis of all of these developments. Individual accounts are provided of eight different reform processes (including Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Sudan), with particular focus on the historical context, the political dynamics, the particular process that each country followed and the substantive outcome. Zaid Al-Ali deconstructs the popular demands that were made in 2011 and translates them into a series of specific actions that would have led to freer societies and a better functioning state. A revolution did not take place in 2011, but it is inevitably part of the region's future and Arab Constitutionalism explores what that revolution could look like.
The Arab Spring
Title | The Arab Spring PDF eBook |
Author | Antoni Abat i Ninet |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-10-30 |
Genre | Arab Spring, 2010- |
ISBN | 1785361600 |
Approaching the concept of Islamic constitutionalism from a comparative perspective, this thought-provoking study by Antoni Abat i Ninet and Mark Tushnet uses traditional Western political theory as a lens to develop a framework for analyzing the events known as the ‘Arab Spring’. Writing with clarity and insight, the authors place Western and Arabic traditions into a constructive dialogue. They focus on whether we can develop a ‘theory of revolutions’ that helps us understand events occurring at divergent times at geographically separate locations. This question is meticulously analyzed through the detailed examination of specific developments relevant to the ideas of revolution and constitutionalism in several nations affected by the Arab Spring. Case studies focus on Morocco and Libya as examples of unsuccessful revolutions, as well as Tunisia and Egypt. These lead the authors to consider the nature of constitutionalism itself and the concept of illiberal but non-authoritarian constitutions: a particularly pressing concern given the prominent contemporary discussions of the role of shari’a in post-Arab Spring constitutions. The Arab Spring will offer new insights to scholars, researchers and students of law and the political sciences, in particular those focusing on theories of revolution, democracy, constitutional law, Islamic constitutionalism and legal theory.
Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity
Title | Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity PDF eBook |
Author | Rainer Grote |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 755 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019975988X |
Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues associated with the theory and practice of constitutionalism in Islamic countries. This collection of essays is written by leading constitutional and comparative law scholars and constitutional practitioners and essays provide readers with an overview of the constitutional developments in countries in the Islamic world, an understanding of the potential and actual impact of Islam and Sharia on the notion of modern constitutionalism, and insight into the ways in which "Western" ideals may be reconciled with Islamic tradition.