the“Islamic Factors in Contemporary International Relations of the Middle East Studies”project in 2008 supported by the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities(08JJDGJW256);Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science project“Theory and Case Study of Chinese Diplomacy”(2010BGJ002)in 2010;It is also supported by the Shanghai Project of First Class Disciplines:Political Science.
Prior to the Middle East upheavals,democratic transitions in Arab countries could be roughly divided into three stages,namely,the early constitutional reform,the third wave of democratization and democratic reforms un...
The US’s Middle Eastern democratization strategy is based on realist considerations of anti-terrorism and national security,while in contrast the Islamic-Arab world’s anti-Americanism originates from negative effect...