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The Maldives

- Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy
Af: John Robinson Engelsk Paperback

The Maldives

- Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy
Af: John Robinson Engelsk Paperback
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The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged for extramarital sex and blackmarket vodka costs $140 a bottle. Until 2008 the Maldives also hosted Asia''s longest-serving dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. A former political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed, an environmental activist, journalist, and politician, brought Gayoom''s thirty-year autocracy to a sudden end, in the Maldives'' first democratic elections. Young, progressive and charismatic, President Nasheed thrust the Maldives into the spotlight as a symbol of the fight against climate change and the struggle for democracy and human rights in one of the world''s strictest Islamic societies. But dictatorships are hard to defeat, enduring in a country''s institutions and the minds of people conditioned to autocracy over three decades. Democracy brought turmoil, protests, violence and intense political polarisation.The ousted dictatorship overthrew Nasheed''s government in February 2012, supported by Islamic radicals and mutinying security forces. Amid Byzantine intrigue, the fight for democracy was just beginning.
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The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby islands local women are flogged for extramarital sex and blackmarket vodka costs $140 a bottle. Until 2008 the Maldives also hosted Asia''s longest-serving dictator, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. A former political prisoner, Mohamed Nasheed, an environmental activist, journalist, and politician, brought Gayoom''s thirty-year autocracy to a sudden end, in the Maldives'' first democratic elections. Young, progressive and charismatic, President Nasheed thrust the Maldives into the spotlight as a symbol of the fight against climate change and the struggle for democracy and human rights in one of the world''s strictest Islamic societies. But dictatorships are hard to defeat, enduring in a country''s institutions and the minds of people conditioned to autocracy over three decades. Democracy brought turmoil, protests, violence and intense political polarisation.The ousted dictatorship overthrew Nasheed''s government in February 2012, supported by Islamic radicals and mutinying security forces. Amid Byzantine intrigue, the fight for democracy was just beginning.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781849045896
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1849045895
Kategori: Religion og politik
Udg. Dato: 18 nov 2015
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 141mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 18 nov 2015
Forfatter(e): John Robinson
Forfatter(e) John Robinson

Kategori Religion og politik

ISBN-13 9781849045896

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 141mm

Højde 215mm

Udg. Dato 18 nov 2015

Oplagsdato 18 nov 2015

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd