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The Carthage of today is a peaceful residential suburb and a successful holiday resort with wonderful beaches. The hotels and restaurants give few clues to its often troubled and violent 3000 year history. This book tells the story of Carthage, from the arrival of Princess Eiyssa in the land of the nomadic Berbers in the 9th or 8th century BC, to the rise of Carthage as an important sea power and its eventual growth into the capital of the Phoenician Empire. ... Read more

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Worth reading for anybody interested in Islam and politics
I bought this book as background reading for a trip to Tunisia, not expecting too much after knowing little more than the title. I have actually read quite a lot about Islam, politics and society a couple of years ago, and this little volume has positively surprised me. While the author admits that he has been part of the movement described, he shows a very critical and differentiated attitude towards the Islamist's claims. For those interested in Tunisia, he offers insight in the power struggle between the government and the Islamic opposition between 1970 and 1990. For those interested in political Islam, the example of an Islamist movement in an extremely westernised and liberal Arab country shows a lot of differences to other countries, for example a positive attitute towards democracy that is theoretically based on the Islamic principle of shura'. ... Read more

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Introduces the north African country, independent from France since 1956. ... Read more

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This book is concerned with EU democracy promotion inside Tunisia, the first Arab signatory of an Association Agreement with the EU. Focusing on the content, context, mechanisms, and outcomes of democratization via association, the authors examine whether Tunisia’s specific mode of democratization works in tandem with EU democracy promotion objectives, and the extent to which both adapt association in a way that neither sabotages EU democracy promotion nor undermines Tunisia’s specificity.

Drawing on Arabic, English and French sources, the book deploys a variety of methods and disciplinary approaches - discourse analysis, interviews, democratization theory, foreign policy analysis, security studies, political history, nationalism and identity – and takes an interpretivist perspective, conceiving of political processes as fluid and tentative. The first comprehensive study of the effects of the Union’s Mediterranean democracy promotion strategy on a single recipient state, this book will be relevant to students of Middle East politics, European foreign policy, Euro-Mediterranean studies, democratization theory, and Euro-Arab relations, this book will also be of great interest to researchers, academics and policy-makers.