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Civil resistance in the Arab Spring : triumphs and disasters

Title: Civil resistance in the Arab Spring : triumphs and disasters / edited by Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash.
Publication: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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xvi, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about the fall of authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Yet these apparent triumphs of non-violent action were followed by disasters-wars in Syria, anarchy in Libya and Yemen, reversion to authoritarian rule in Egypt, and counter-revolution backed by external intervention in Bahrain. Looming over these events was the enduring divide between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam. Why did so much go wrong? Was the problem the methods, leadership and aims of the popular movements, or the conditions of their societies? In this book, experts on these countries, and on the techniques of civil resistance, set the events in their historical, social and political contexts. They describe how governments and outside powers-including the US and EU-responded, how Arab monarchies in Jordan and Morocco undertook to introduce reforms to avert revolution, and why the Arab Spring failed to spark a Palestinian one.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The background to civil resistance in the Middle East / Chibli Mallat and Edward Mortimer -- Revolt for dignity : Tunisia's revolution and civil resistance / Michael J. Willis -- Egypt's unfinished revolution / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain / Elham Fakhro -- Civil resistance in Libya during the Arab Spring / George Joffé -- The change squares of Yemen : civil resistance in an unlikely context / Helen Lackner -- Hirak! : civil resistance and the Jordan Spring / Jacob Amis -- Morocco : obedience, civil resistance, and dispersed solidarities / Driss Maghraoui -- Civil resistance in the Syrian uprising : from peaceful protest to sectarian civil war / Raymond Hinnebusch, Omar Imady, and Tina Zintl -- Palestine and the Arab uprisings / Wendy Pearlman -- Civil resistance and the fate of the Arab Spring / Adam Roberts.

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JFE 16-6744

ISBN

9780198749028
0198749023

LCCN

2015940147

OCLC

913852718

Title

Civil resistance in the Arab Spring : triumphs and disasters / edited by Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Roberts, Adam, 1940- editor.

Willis, Michael J. (Lecturer), editor.

McCarthy, Rory, 1971- editor.

Garton Ash, Timothy, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-6744

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