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Civil Society in the Middle East
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Domes
10-31-1995
Civil Society in the Middle East.
According to the editor, this volume (the first of two) was inspired by a project launched in 1992 by the Civil Society in the Middle East program "which brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political life through an exploration of civil society within the states of the region." The observation precipitating these essays derived from the conclusion that two paradigmatic approaches to political...
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