The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780813348193 | 0813348196
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Perseus Books
Pub. Date: 11/27/2012
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Organized by country, a description of the 2011 revolutions in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring unexpectedly developed in late 2010 with peaceful protests in a number of Arab countries against long-standing, entrenched regimes, and rapid political change across the region ensued. The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle Eastexamines these revolutions and their aftermath. Noted authorities writing specifically for this volume contribute chapters focusing on countries directly or indirectly involved, illu... MORE
The Arab Spring unexpectedly developed in late 2010 with peaceful protests in a number of Arab countries against long-standing, entrenched regimes, and rapid political change across the region ensued. The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle Eastexamines these revolutions and their aftermath. Noted authorities writing specifically for this volume contribute chapters focusing on countries directly or indirectly involved, illu... MORE
| Map | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| A Note on the Text | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Spring in the Arab World | p. 11 |
| From Sidi Bou Zid to Sidi Bou Said: A Longue Durée Approach to the Tunisian Revolutions | p. 13 |
| Egypt: The Origins and Consequences of the January 25 Uprising | p. 35 |
| The Arab Spring: Libya's Second Revolution | p. 64 |
| The Uprising That Wasn'... MORE | p. 79 |
| Oil, Sauid Arabia, and the Spring That Has Not Come | p. 97 |
| Jordan and the Arab Spring | p. 116 |
| The Regional and International Context of the Arab Spring | p. 131 |
| The Gift and the Curse: Iran and the Arab Spring | p. 133 |
| Turkey and the Arab Spring: Ideological Promotion in a Revolutionary Era | p. 152 |
| Israel and the Arab Spring: The Victory of Anxiety | p. 174 |
| Russia and the Arab Spring: A Preliminary Appraisal | p. 195 |
| Same Old Story? Obama and the Arab Uprisings | p. 219 |
| Conclusion: The Arab World at the Intersection of the National and Transnational | p. 238 |
| About the Contributors | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 261 |
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Mark L. Haas is Associate Professor in the Political Science Department and the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquense University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security and The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989, and coeditor of The Middle East and the United States. David W. Lesch is Professor of Middle East History in the History Department at Trinity University. Dr. Lesch is the author or editor of twelve books, including Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad and The new Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria, and coeditor of The Middle East and the United States.
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