A rough journey : nascent democratization in the Middle East / Albrecht Schnabel -- Democratic peace, conflict prevention, and the United Nations -- Democratization and peacebuilding / Albrecht Schnabel -- Toward a democratic peace in the Middle East / Etel Solingen -- The United Nations and the Middle East / Amin Saikal -- Secularization and democracy -- Disenchanted worlds : secularization and democratization in the Middle East / Majid Tehranian -- The influence of Islam on attitudes toward democracy in Morocco and Algeria / Mark Tessler -- National and regional experiences -- The democratic process in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan / Kamel S. Abu Jaber -- "Democratic peace" and the Jewish political tradition / Gerald M. Steinberg -- Democracy and peace in Iran and Iraq / Amin Saikal -- State power and democratization in North Africa : developments in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya / Tom Pierre Najem