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THE RESILIENCY OF ARAB AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI
CONFLICT: THE UNITED STATES’ ROLE IN THE CASES OF
EGYPT AND JORDAN
by
Fayez Yousef Hammad
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICAL SCIENCE)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Fayez Yousef Hammad
Object Description
| Title | The resiliency of Arab authoritarianism and the Arab-Israeli conflict: the United States' role in the cases of Egypt and Jordan |
| Author | Hammad, Fayez Yousef |
| Author email | fhammad@usc.edu; fayezhammad@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Science |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-10-22 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 11 Dec. 2009. |
| Date published | 2009-12-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hamilton, Nora |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dekmejian, Richard H. Biblarz, Timothy |
| Abstract | This study focuses on the external dimension of the resiliency of authoritarianism in Egypt and Jordan. It proceeds by eschewing the pre-requisite approaches, which argue that lack of some condition, such as sufficient economic development or cultural and religious compatibility with democracy, prevents transition to democracy. Instead, the study follows a contingency approach, at the center of which lies the authoritarian incumbent's strategic calculations over the expected domestic costs of toleration and oppression of the opposition. In filling the gap in the literature and providing a policy-relevant explanation for Arab authoritarianism, the study contends that the regime also considers the expected external costs.; A close examination of the historical record revels that the US relationships with Jordan and Egypt are a function of the US-Israeli special relationship, which itself is a function of Israel's perceived strategic value to the US, American-Israeli cultural and political affinity, and the pro-Israel lobby. In the wake of the devastating Arab defeat in the 1967 War and Israel's occupation of Arab territories, and due to this "special" relationship, the US has followed an Israel-centered approach towards the region and supported Israel's policies, resulting in the non-resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This significantly accounts for the rise of political Islam and Arab anti-Americanism. These two currents are further reinforced by the fact that both Egypt and Jordan reached separate peace treaties with Israel, which left the Palestine problem unresolved.; Against this backdrop, the United States, in essence, strikes a bargain in a two-level game with the two authoritarian regimes: at level one Jordan and Egypt preserve their peace treaty with Israel and support US policies in the region; in exchange, the US provides not only generous financial support but also political support in the form of non-interference in the regimes' conduct toward their domestic opposition. Since these currents (i.e. political Islam and anti-Americanism) and the US-regime dynamics provide the opposition with its raison d'être, the United States is provided with an additional rationale to support the regimes: to prevent the mostly Islamist opposition from coming to power. At level two while the US Congress readily ratifies such a bargain, Arab authoritarian regimes extract ratification through cooptation, manipulation or oppression. Fully aware of American calculations and objectives, the regimes in Jordan and Egypt accurately calculate that there is little or no external cost to oppressing their opposition. |
| Keyword | Arab authoritarianism; U.S. democracy promotion in the Arab world; U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East; external factors and democratization; Middle East peace process and democratization; Arab-Israeli conflict and authoritarianism; political Islam and U.S. Middle East policy |
| Geographic subject (country) | Egypt; Jordan; USA; Israel |
| Geographic subject (region) | Middle East |
| Coverage date | after 1967 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1909 |
| Rights | Hammad, Fayez Yousef |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hammad-2519 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Hammad-2519.pdf |
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| Full text | THE RESILIENCY OF ARAB AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: THE UNITED STATES’ ROLE IN THE CASES OF EGYPT AND JORDAN by Fayez Yousef Hammad A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Fayez Yousef Hammad |
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