The Dynamics of Opposition Cooperation in the Arab World

Educated at Heidelberg University in Germany and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE), and after lecturing at the American University in Cairo, Hendrik Kraetzschmar chose Leeds University for the same function. Thus it was easy for him to enlist eleven other contributors to this book – from Bahrain (Marc Valeri), Egypt (Ray Bush and Maha AbdelRahman), Jordan (Curtis R. Ryan), Morocco (Eva Wagner and Miquel Pellicer), Syria (Thomas Pierret) Tunisia (Rikke Hostrup Haugbolle and Francesco Cavatorta), and the Yemen (Vincent Durac). Summing up the findings of these studies was entrusted to Ellen Lust. All contributions had appeared earlier in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 38. Under “Opposition Cooperation” readers are made to understand “joint opposition action against authoritarianism” like the monitoring of a voting process. Here, the author (strangely) complains that far too little was known about when and how [Arab] opposition parties cooperated with each other in parliament.