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After the Arab spring : how Islamists hijacked the Middle East revolts / John R. Bradley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, John R., 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratization.
- Revolutions.
- Politics and government.
- Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
- Middle East.
- Arab Spring, 2010-.
- Revolutions--Middle East.
- Islam and politics--Middle East.
- Islam and politics.
- Democratization--Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- v, 247 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- "When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230338197
- 0230338194
- OCLC:
- 733231484
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