Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment (Comparative Politics and International Studies) - Softcover

9780190876081: Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment (Comparative Politics and International Studies)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0190876085 ISBN 13: 9780190876081

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the countries whose regimes were toppled in 2011, as if they were merely footnotes to a narrative that naturally led from an "Arab Spring" to an "Arab Winter".
This volume aims at rehabilitating those transitions, by considering them as expressions of a "revolutionary moment" whose outcome was never pre-determined, but depended on the choices of a large range of actors. It brings together leading scholars of Arab politics to adopt a comparative approach to a few crucial aspects of those transitions: constitutional debates, the question of transitional justice, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the role of specific actors, both domestic and international.

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About the Author:

St�phane Lacroix is an associate professor of Political Science at Sciences Po and a researcher at Sciences Po's Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI). He is the co-author of Saudi Arabia in Transition and of Egypt's Revolutions. Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and has held visiting professorships at both Columbia University and Georgetown University. He is the author of From Deep State to Islamic State and Gaza: A History, also available from Oxford University Press.

Review:

"The Arab spring has triggered an emotional but short lived enthusiasm in the West; disappointment led to political and academic neglect of what was seen as an ephemeral event. This volume rehabilitates the Arab Spring as an essential moment by placing it in a long term perspective. A remarkable in-depth analysis by the best experts of an event which has definitively changed the strategic and political landscape of the region." -- Olivier Roy, Professor, European University Institute, Florence and author of Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State

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