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Larbi Sadiki is senior lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter and was a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Sadiki specializes in democratization in the Arab Middle East and lectures on Arab democratization and human rights, dialogue of civilizations, and Middle East–EU relations.
He is the author of The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (Columbia University Press: 2004). His forthcoming book, Rethinking Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy, is currently under review. A co-authored book, Tunisia–EU Relations: Democratization via Association, will appear later in 2008.
Selected Publications:
The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (Columbia University Press, 2004).
Democratic transition continues to elude Arab countries and Arab republicanism has lost much of its meaning, as presidential power is increasingly being bequeathed from father to son.
The National Solidarity Fund has succeeded in reducing poverty and building a culture of solidarity, despite limited political participation.
France sees the ascent of Anglo-American influence as having advanced at its expense not only in Iraq, but also in North Africa, a zone long considered to be France’s backyard.
