Democratic Transformation in Ethnic Communities A Comparative Study (Iraq and South Africa)

Published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies, “Democratic Transformation in Ethnic Communities: A Comparative Study (Iraq and South Africa)” by Siham Fawzi.

The publication of this book comes at a time when the issue of democratic transformation has gained theoretical and practical importance in the field of comparative political systems since the nineties of the last century. In all cases, there have been multiple obstacles and difficulties in this way, so it may be useful to view the process of democratization in its proper form as a viable or failing process.

Although democratization is a process with specific steps, it may be different in ethnically diverse societies. This book aims to identify the process of democratization in ethnic communities and the most important problems faced by them, and to find solutions to those problems, as well as to identify the factors affecting this process. The cases of Iraq and South Africa are two models that merit comparison, which allows for the identification of the reasons for the success and failure of the democratization process in ethnically divided societies.