Between Ideology and Politics

<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.<br/> <br/>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 degree by national contexts such as limited time in power limited control of the government and their relationships with other domestic political actors.