TY - BOOK AU - Kausch, Kristina TI - Geopolitics and Democracy in the Middle East SN - 978-84-606-9283-6 PY - 2015/// CY - C/ Felipe IV, 9, 1º dcha., 28014-Madrid, Spain PB - Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) KW - Geopolítica KW - Democracia KW - Oriente medio N2 - The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is undergoing a profound geopolitical reconfiguration. In four years, the region has transitioned from the great hopes for democratisation emanating from the 2011 wave of popular revolutions towards a spiral of fragmentation, insecurity and fragility. Violent conflict rages in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, and Lebanon teeters on the brink of renewed hostilities. With the exception of Tunisia – where democratic transition has advanced – and countries engulfed in internecine conflict, authoritarian rule in the region has been preserved or restored UR - http://fride.org/descarga/Geopolitics_and_Democracy_in_the_Middle_East.pdf ER -