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An 8 page research paper that discusses this question. The writer examines opinion, both pro and con, and concludes that while there is evidence of Arab countries moving incrementally toward democracy, it is unrealistic to expect these nations to undergo radical change. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the condescending notion that freedom will not grow in the Middle East" (Inglehart and Norris 62). Yet, three years after the US invasion of Iraq, the question of rather democracy
is viable in the Islamic world of Arab states continues to "cast a long shadow over the Middle East" (Heydemann 146). This shadow not only holds portent for Arab governments
but for the US government as well, as President Bushs continued insistence that democracy must happen in the Middle East only serves to deepen the question of why democracy has
failed to take root in the region (Heydemann 146). Consequently, the strategy of coercive democratization, enforced by militarily imposed regime change, has lost support with everyone, save a "shrinking group
of diehard conservatives" (Heydemann 146). Nevertheless, there is ongoing debate as to whether or not Islam, and therefore the Arab world in general, is compatible with democracy. According
to Freedom House rankings, close to two thirds of the 192 countries in the world can now be classified as electoral democracies, but, out of this number, only 47 of
these countries have populations with an Islamic majority--none of the core Arabic-speaking nations are among them (Inglehart and Norris 62). Some experts believe that the Muslim world lacks the "core
political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious and secular authority, rule of law and social pluralism, parliamentary institutions of
representative government, and the protection of individual rights and civil liberties," which serve as a "buffer between citizens and the power of the state" (Inglehart and Norris 62). Interestingly, recent
polls that evaluate cultural assumptions found a great deal of support for democratic ideals in Muslim countries and that support "for the goal of democracy is surprisingly widespread among Muslim
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