If current Tunisia continues to behave the way it did in the previous election by the time the next election comes, the Arab World will have added "Modern Functional Democracy" to its list of various regime types. However, up to the present day there are no Arab States that are Liberal Democracies.
There are numerous Illiberal Democracies in the Arab World, though. In those cases, the Arab Nations were Liberal Democracies on paper with guaranteed voting rights, freedoms of speech and religion, constitutions that bind the authority of the Executive. However, in nearly every Arab regime that this describes (like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Mubarak's Egypt, ben Ali's Tunisia) these paper rights and limitations did not exist. These rulers used an apparent mechanism of democracy to perpetuate a Dictatorship.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's population is 502,585.
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The ARAB LEAGUE is a regional organization for all Arab-majority country, which is most of the countries in the Middle East.
No specific dates, the USSR had a policy that began in the 1950's that favored the Arab nations vs. Israel. The goal was to create a wedge between the Arab countries and the democratic nations of the west. The Soviet Union supplied most of the military equipment to those nations (& terrorists) most hostile towards Israel in the 1960-1990 era, such as to: Egypt, Syria, Iraq, & Libya.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's population density is 1.9 people per square kilometer.
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Democratic Arab Socialist Union was created in 1980.
Arab Democratic Party - Lebanon - was created in 1974.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic's population is 502,585.
Most democratic nations run under the capitalist system. However, many capitalist countries are not democratic.
Most Asian countries are democratic except for China, Vietnam and North Korea.
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For the most part, Arab countries do not allow Arabs to enjoy their civil rights. Arab civil rights are much more manifest in Western countries.
Democratic Socialist Arab Ba'ath Party was created in 1980.
Constitution of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was created in 1976.
Arab Democratic Nasserist Party was created on 1992-04-19.
Arab Democratic Party - Israel - was created on 1988-02-15.