Ahmed Shaheed
Shaheed, Ahmed; Upton, Jonathan, Maldives: Reform Deferred? Challenges and Lost Opportunities for Democratic Transition
Pre-2008 elections. Includes sections ‘Repression of Peaceful Opposition and New Media 1999-2002’ and on attempted reforms.
Shaheed, Ahmed, Future Prospects for Islam and Democracy: a view from the Maldives
3 4Then foreign minister addresses the question ‘how did a 100% Muslim country, acting in tandem with the international community, … peacefully turn centuries of autocratic rule into something resembling a functioning liberal democracy?’