Citation

Al‐Jarrah A, Cullingford C. Politics 2007; 27(1): 16-23.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom and Blackwell Publishing, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-9256.2007.00274.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The political rhetoric behind ‘regime change’ in the Middle East relies on the idea of introducing democracy to the region, with a gradual knock-on effect. For those in the area the notion has quite different connotations, partly as a result of the invasion of Iraq. This study explores the responses of university students to the term. They are from a state sympathetic to the West and not in any way militant, but they are vociferous in their interpretation of ‘democracy’ and its associations.