摘要
The US’s Middle Eastern democratization strategy is based on realist considerations of anti-terrorism and national security,while in contrast the Islamic-Arab world’s anti-Americanism originates from negative effects of modernization and globalization along with perceptions of an inherent unfairness in the US’s Middle East policy.Consequently,the advancement of the Middle Eastern democratization processes within this context are bound to face obstacles and distortion.Anti-Americanism not only leads to the absence of a stable environment for democratization in the Middle East,but also constrains the US’s possible avenues to pursue its Middle Eastern democratization strategy when some Arab authoritarian governments use it as a check and balance to resist the US’s democratization pressure.
