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  • 6 - The Politics of Democracy Aid after the Arab Uprisings

  • from Part III - Securing Democracy
  • Erin A. Snider, Texas A & M University
  • Book:
    Marketing Democracy
    Published online:
    24 March 2022
    Print publication:
    31 March 2022, pp 181-201

  • Summary

    In the final chapter, I consider how the 2011 Arab uprisings challenged the strategies adopted by the United States and regimes in Egypt and Morocco. I examine shifting aid strategies from the United States and the response from former regime elites and emergent political actors. Drawing from interviews with diplomats and activists involved in transitional support and unreleased data, I consider how the ideas, institutions, and interests that supported a particular form of democracy aid for twenty-five years adjusted with the promise of political change. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the challenges these changes now pose for activists and emerging political actors in the region as well as policymakers in the United States and those embedded within the democracy bureaucracy in Washington, DC. The chapter’s final section revisits the questions raised at the outset of the book and discusses possible mechanisms for enhancing the effectiveness of democracy aid programs.