Hybrid Regimes in the Arab Mashreq and their Role in Turning Political Disputes into Identity Conflicts

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  • Belal M ShobaKI Hebron University, Palestine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12816/0040870

Keywords:

Authoritarianism, Arab Mashreq, Identity Conflict, Hybrid Regimes

Abstract

This paper argues that hybrid regimes help to create an environment that encourages the transformation of political disputes into identity conflicts. In such regimes, there is no resolution to the advantage of a particular party, since there is neither full authoritarianism that prevents the existence of any form of competition, rivalry, or conflict, or full democracy that permits the existence of democratic competition according to principles of pluralism, the peaceful transfer of power, and legal guarantees. In the environment of these hybrid regimes there are some features of democracy and many features of authoritarianism, and so political competition usually begins as a dispute over points of view and intellectual assumptions and ends up as an identity conflict leading to the dissociation of society.

Author Biography

  • Belal M ShobaKI, Hebron University, Palestine
    Professor of Political Science, Hebron University, Palestine.

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