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Dr Larbi Sadiki

Publications

Books

with Brieg Powel, The EU & Tunisia: A Study of Democratization via Association (London: Routledge – November 2009)., London, Routledge, 2009.

Re-Thinking Arab Democratisation: Elections without Democracy (Oxford: Oxford Studies in Democratisation Series, OUP, February 2009)., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009. Publisher Website

Al-Ba’th ‘an Dimuqratiyyah Arabiyyah: Arabic translation of The Search for Arab Democracy by the Arab Unity Studies Centre (Beirut: AUSC, 2007), 504pp., Beirut, Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2007. Publisher Website

The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses, Columbia University Press, 2004.

Chapters

“Popular Uprisings and Arab Democratization,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 32, no. 1 (2000) 71-95. REPRINTED as a chapter in Laleh Khalili (ed.), Politics of the Modern Arab World: Critical Issues in Modern Politics, Volume III (London: Routledge, 2008), in Khalili L (eds) Politics of the Modern Arab World: Critical Issues in Modern Politics, London: Routledge, 2008

Engendrando la ciudadanía en Túnez, in Amirah-Fernádez YHZYH (eds) El Magreb: Realidades Nacionales y Dinámicas Regionales en la era de la Globalización, Madrid: Síntesis, 2008, 149-178

“Engendering citizenship in Tunisia: Prioritising Unity over Democracy,” in Yahia H. Zoubir & Haizam Amirah-Fernández (eds.), North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of Transformation (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 109-132., in Zoubir YH,Amirah-Fernández H (eds) North Africa: Politics, Religion, and the Limits of Transformation, London: Routledge, 2008, 109-132

'entries for Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen', in Revolutionary and Dissident Movements in the World (4th edition), London: John Harper Publishing, 2004

'entries for ‘rogue state’, and ‘Arab League’', in Griffiths M (eds) Encyclopaedia of International Relations and Global Politics, London: Routledge, 2004

Saudi Arabia: Re-reading Politics and Religion in the Wake of September 11, in Akbarzadeh S,Saeed A (eds) Islam and Political Legitimacy, Routledge, 2003, 29-49

Conferences

“Searching for Arab Democracy: 'Word' and 'World'.” Invited to give the first paper in ‘Political Economies of Democratisation' Series, 23 February 2009, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK., , vol. Proposed Edited volume

“Hizbullah between Literalism and Pragmatism: Party of God? Party of the People?” Invited by Leeds University Middle East Studies Centre’s series on ‘Democracy and Violence’ to co-speak with Professor Augustus R. Norton (Boston University) on the topic of ‘Islamists, terrorism and democracy’, 4 February 2009, University of Leeds, England., , vol. 16, no. 3, 2009

“Arab Democratisation: Where does ‘Democratic Knowledge’ come from?”, Politics Department, The University of Sana’a, Yemen, 15 December 2008.,

“Towards Learning Democracy: the Challenge of Arab-Arab Transfer of ‘best’ Democratic Practice,” Sheba Centre for Strategic Studies, Sana’a, Yemen, 14 December 2008.,

“Knowledge vs. Power: The Quest for Arab Democracy between ‘Filiation’ and ‘Affiliation’,” in Islamism, Democracy and Arab Intellectuals: The Missing Dimension in Democracy Promotion, Conference Organized Jointly by the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, London, December 4-5, 2008.,

“How to Understand Arab Reforms? Democratisation versus Learning Democracy,” in “Facing the Democratic Imperative: Political and Ideological Evolutions of Arab Regimes,” Conference by Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, 20 May 2008, Barcelona, Spain.,

Journal articles

Wither Arab 'Republicanism'? The Rise of Family Rule and the 'End of Democratization' in Egypt, Libya and Yemen, MEDITERR POLIT, vol. 15, no. 1, 2010, 99-107 DOI

Political Liberalisation in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Façade Democracy., Democratization, vol. 9, no. 4, 2002, 122-141

The Search for Citizenship in Bin Ali's Tunisia: Democracy versus Unity, Political Studies, vol. 50, no. 3, 2002, 497-513 DOI

'Bin Ali’s Tunisia: Democracy by Non-democratic Means', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies,, vol. 29, no. 11, 2002, 57-78

'One ‘Islam’, many ‘Islams’: Understanding the Arab-Islamic Perspective', Studies in International, vol. 13, no. 4, 2002, 43-60

Reframing Resistance and Democracy: Narratives from Hamas & Hizbullah, Democratization, vol. 17, no. 2 Publisher Website