TY - BOOK AU - SHAHRAM Akbarzadeh (editor) TI - American democracy promotion in the changing Middle East: from Bush to Obama SN - 9780415520553 (hbk.) : PY - 2013/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York PB - Routledge, KW - DEMOCRATIZATION KW - GOVERNMENT POLICY KW - UNITED STATES KW - MIDDLE EAST KW - FOREIGN RELATIONS N1 - lncludes bibliographical references and index N2 - The US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were packaged as democracy promotion, as heralding the beginning of a new phase in the politics of the Middle East when democracy would replace authoritarian regimes. Many of these authoritarian regimes, however, were sustained by US support ER -