Author: Tamara Cofman Wittes | Journal of Democracy

Tamara Cofman Wittes is a senior fellow and director of the Project on Middle East Democracy and Development in the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Her latest book is Freedom’s Unsteady March: America’s Role in Building Arab Democracy (2008).

July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3

Islamist Parties and Democracy: Three Kinds of Movements

Tamara Cofman Wittes

The rise of Islamist parties poses new challenges to efforts to understand the relationship between Islam and democracy. A diverse group of authors investigates this new phenomenon and its implications for the future of democracy in the Middle East.

January 2008, Volume 19, Issue 1

Morocco’s Elections: The Limits of Limited Reforms

Michael McFaul
Tamara Cofman Wittes

The program of carefully controlled reform-from-above that King Mohamed VI began almost a decade ago may now have reached an impasse amid signs of growing disaffection.