The reality and determinants of peaceful transfer of political power in Arab countries
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https://doi.org/10.58298/792024633Keywords:
peaceful circulation, political power, tyranny, Arab countriesAbstract
Throughout its long history, humanity has known many systems and methods through which rulers reach political power in the state, which differ according to historical eras. These methods have varied between the hereditary method used in monarchies, through the authoritarian method represented in the use of force and violence in its various forms, or through allegiance, or the lottery used in direct democracy among the Greeks, up to the election used in many modern systems. However, the Arab political reality indicates the exclusion of the issue of rotation of power, as most Arab countries have not witnessed the real transfer of power in its executive aspect, with the exception of Lebanon and Iraq after 2003. Accordingly, the ordeal of the transfer of power in the Arab world is not the result of a specific circumstance or a single variable, but rather the result of the interaction of a set of historical, political, economic, social and cultural factors and circumstances that created the tyrant and sustained the reasons for him to remain in power.
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