Jelen kötet a világ nagy civilizációt tárja az olvasó elé, bemutatva történeti korszakaikat kialakulásuktól a 20. század első feléig. A szerzők célja az volt, hogy az eseménytörténeten túlra tekintve olyan kultúra és civilizáció történeti könyvet írjanak, amely...

Political liberalisation in Jordan was launched as a regime survival strategy in 1989 by the late King Hussein. In spite of his efforts, 18 years later the Jordanian monarchy is considered as a semi-authoritarian system. This article explores the prospects for further political liberalisation...

Up to January 2011 authoritarian political regimes in the Middle East had widely been considered stable due to the armed forces, the underdeveloped political institutions, the economic embeddedness of the regimes, the neo-patrimonial structure of the Arab societies and, eventually the...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the ongoing transformation process within the Islamist movements using the example of the moderate Islamic Action Front party in Jordan. The dilemma of participation in the 2010 general elections raised tensions between the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and its...