Dilemmas in a Democratic Age
"Tocqueville in Arabia is a profound meditation on students in different cultures in the twenty-first century and the difficulties faced by mature democracy in America and emerging democracy in the Muslim Arab world. Flowing smoothly from one issue to another, from personal experience to works of political philosophy, and from the United States to the Arab Gulf and back again, Joshua Mitchell succeeds marvelously in identifying the expectations, aspirations, and anxieties that characterize young people today, and he illuminates their common psychological and spiritual proclivities by means of deft and succinct exposition of the ideas of Tocqueville, as well as Rousseau, Marx, and Smith." -Peter Berkowitz, Stanford University"
Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. From 2005 to 2010, he taught first at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar, and then at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He is the author of several books, including The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future, also published by the University of Chicago Press.