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The Arab revolution of 2011 : a comparative perspective / edited by Said Amir Arjomand.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, Pangaea II
- SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab Spring, 2010-.
- Revolutions--Arab countries--History--21st century.
- Revolutions.
- Arab countries--History--21st century.
- Arab countries.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, [New York] : SUNY Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do we make sense of the Arab revolution of 2011? What were its successes, its failures, and significance in world history? The Arab Revolution of 2011 brings together a broad range of perspectives to explain the causes, processes, and consequences of the revolution of 2011 and its critical implications for the future. The contributors, in this major addition to the sociology of revolutions, step back from the earlier euphoria of the Arab Spring to provide a sober analysis of what is still an ongoing process of upheaval in the Middle East. The essays address the role of national armies and foreign military intervention, the character and structure of old regimes as determinants of peaceful or violent political transformation, the constitutional placement of Islam in post-revolutionary regimes, and the possibilities of supplanting authoritarianism with democracy. The revolution of 2011 is also examined within a broad historical perspective, comparing the dynamics of revolution and counterrevolution in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya with such epochal events as the European revolution of 1848 and Russia in 1917.--Publisher.
- Contents:
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
- Introduction
- References
- 1. The Arab Revolution of 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative Perspective
- A Global Comparative Perspective
- Constitutional Revolution and Its Distinctive Typological Features
- The Middle Eastern Perspective: A Comparison with Iran
- Neo-patrimonial Regimes and the Revolutions of 2011
- Mobilizational Regimes and Revolution in the Middle East
- The State Survival and Constitutional Revolutions in Tunisia
- State Survival and Constitutional Revolution and Counterrevolution in Egypt State Revival and the Law and Order Counterrevolution in Egypt
- State Collapse and Deepening Revolutionary Power Struggle in Libya
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2. Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011
- Types of Authoritarian Regimes
- The Monarchies
- The Personalist Regimes
- The Quiet Regimes
- Beyond the Uprisings: Trajectories of Peaceful and Violent Change
- References
- 3. Is Democracy a Mirage? The Arab Awakening in Comparative PerspectiveCitizens and Believers
- Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Democracy and Civil Society
- Which Democracy?
- 4. Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World Perspective
- Inequality Clustering and Institutional Path Dependence in MENA�Some Stylized Facts
- Welfare Making as State Making in the Postcolonial Middle East
- The New Middle Class and Social Underpinnings of the Arab Spring
- Note
- 5. A Place for Revolution: Urban Space in the Arab SpringCities and Political Power
- Secondary Cities and the Arab Spring
- Space and Places
- Cities as Locales for Political Resistance
- Urban Spaces as Political Symbols
- Cities as Locations of Popular Protest
- 6. Quest for the Dawla Madania (Civic State): Visions of Egyptian Statehood
- The Uprising: A Successful Protest!
- Pre-Uprising Activism: Fluid and Networked Against Repression
- Transition to Twilight: Sovereign State Agencies
- Post�Uprising Activism: Violence of Binary Oppositions Beyond Activism: Visions of Modern Civic Statehood
- 7. The First Year of the Tunisian Revolution
- â€oeKasbah Iâ€? and â€oeKasbah II, â€? Januaryâ€?March 2011
- The Transition to General Elections, April�October 2011
- The Tripartite Formula, November 2011-March 2012
- Tunisian Constitutionalism and Revolutionary Process
- Appendix: The Timeline
- 2011
- 2012
- 8. Why Burkina�s Spring Fizzled Away: Paradoxes of a Semiauthoritarian Regime
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438454900
- 1438454902
- OCLC:
- 905225508
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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