'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production

Larbi Sadiki is Professor of Arab democratisation, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University, Qatar. He received his tertiary education at Sydney University, Australia, and obtained his PhD in political science and international affairs, with special reference to the Arab World, at the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. He began his academic career at ANU and was based at Exeter University’s political science department for 12 years before joining Qatar University in 2012. He has been a regular columnist at Al-Jazeera English and has numerous refereed articles in journals such as IJMES, Political Studies, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Third World Quarterly, Journal of North African Studies, Orient, and Democratization.

• 1. Introduction: Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa 2. Maghreb, European neighbour, or Barbary Coast: constructivism in North Africa 3. Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring 4. Traditions of governance in North Africa 5. The external dimension of Libya’s troubled transition: the international community and ‘democratic knowledge’ transfer 6. Democratisation as a learning process: the case of Morocco 7. Salafism, liberalism, and democratic learning in Tunisia 8. Protests, Islamism and the waning prospect of revolution in Egypt 9. Do Tunisian Secular Civil Society Organisations demonstrate a process of democratic learning?

"[It] invites us to critically reflect on the general state of democracy in times of increasingly successful post-factual politics in well-established democracies."Jan Claudius Völkel,Cairo University, Egypt