Between Ideology and Politics av Taghreed Alsabeh

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<b>This study presents a comparative, case-study approach to analyzing the foreign policies of ruling Islamist parties in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.</b> The book investigates whether democratically elected ruling Islamist parties apply their ideology to foreign policy and how their foreign policy approaches differ to that of non-Islamist parties. Taghreed Alsabeh provides in-depth analysis of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in Egypt, the Justice and Development Party (PJD) in Morocco, and the Ennahda Party in Tunisia, over a period of twelve years, and compares their foreign policy approaches and outcomes to those of their own internal non-Islamist counterparts. What emerges is a detailed picture of each country¿s foreign policy trajectories through successive governments ¿ both Islamist and non-Islamist rule ¿ and clear sites of commonality as well as divergence. Alsabeh demonstrates that ultimately Islamist parties¿ foreign policies have been ideologically constrained to a large