United States policy towards political islam movements in the arab world
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2013
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university of Oum- El- Bouaghi
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Throughout its history, the US pursued always a negative position towards the Islamic Movements that it perceives as a challenge with which it should deal in a serious way. After the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphe, the Islamic Movements began to emerge starting by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Despite the fact that these Islamic Movements were controversial, they shaped an important part of the arabic political life and had an effective impact on public opinion. Such Islamic Movements were widely accepted since they were seen by people as the most suitable alternative to the previous corrupt systems. Following a historical descriptive as well as analytical approach, this dissertation aims at shedding light on the US policy towards the Islamic Movements in the Arab World. It emphasises on the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria (1989-1992) and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (2011-2013) as case studies. It also digs deeply in the US policy during George W. Bush and Barak Obama' s administrations and how they reacted to those peaceful Islamic Movements. This dissertation aims to explore the real reasons behind the American rejection to the Islamic Movements despite its claims of the by the latters incompatibility with democracy. It assumes that the US policy towards the Arab world in general and the Islamic Movements in particular depended neither on political values nor on democracy but only on the US economic and political interests that cannot be secured with the popular elected governments. In the end, it is the people who paid the price of the anarchy and chaos caused by the suppression of their will and the opression and irresponsibility of the undemocratic regimes that rule them.
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Politique islamique, Democracy