Democratización en Oriente Medioel caso de Egipto, actores y dinámicas (2005-2013)

Abstract

My main motivation is the importance of the MENA region and the immunity of the Arab-Muslim countries to the democratization processes, a thesis debated by many. The Arabuprisings and the fall of several authoritarian regimes revealed a different reality that must bestudied with an analytical look in the historical and geopolitical context. In the first part ofthe thesis it is considered fundamental to analyze both the actors and elements that shaped theArab world and have prevented a democratic transition in Arab-Muslim countries as well asthe challenges of building democratic societies that are compatible with Islam through longprocesses of Transition. The second part deals with a specific case, Egypt. On one hand, weanalyze the dynamics of its semi-authoritarian system that created challenges andopportunities for democracy and on the other hand, the Egyptian transition.In the present investigation we will use several methods and we will handle a series ofquantitative and qualitative data. We will build our approach through models offered bycomparative policy theorists such as O'Donnell and Schmitter, Przeworski, Tarrow, andTilly. Our main methodological tools will be the inductive method and the analytical method...