Part I 1 John Waterbury (Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University) Democracy without democrats? The potential for political liberalization in the Middle East 2 Jean Leca (Institut d'etudes politiques, Universite de Paris) Democratization in the Arab world: uncertainty, vulnerability and legitimacy: a tentative conceptualization and some hypotheses 3 Ghassan Salame (Institut d'etudes politiques, Universite de Paris) Democracy as an instrument of civil peace 4 Aziz al-Azmeh (Dept of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) Recent discourse on democracy in the Arab world: theses and proposals 5 Giacome Luciani (Economic advisor, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Milan) The fiscal crisis of the state and democratization 6 Philippe Fargues (CEDEJ, Cairo) Demographic or social explosion? Part 2 7 Roger Owen (Oxford University) Socioeconomic change and political mobilization: The case of Egypt 8 Gudrun Kramer (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen) The integration of the integrists: a comparative study of Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia 9 Abdelbaki Hermissi (Tunisian Ambassador to France, and UNESCO delegate) The political impact of socioeconomic transformations: The case of North Africa 10 Volker Perthes (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Ebenhausen) The private sector, economic liberalization and the prospects of democratization: The case of Syria compared with other Arab countries 11 Jean-Francois Bayard (CERI, Paris) Republican trajectories in Iran and Turkey: A Tocquevillian reading 12 Olivier Roy (CNRS, Paris) Clientelism and solidarity groups in Central Asia
