US approaches to the Arab uprisings : international relations and democracy promotion / edited by Amentahru Wahlrab, and Michael J. McNeal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McNeal, Michael J., editor.

Wahlrab, Amentahru, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab Spring, 2010-.

Arab countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Arab countries.

United States--Foreign relations--Arab countries.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

United States approaches to the Arab uprisings : international relations and democracy promotion

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"From nonviolent protests in Cairo and Manama to the ousting of Libya's Gaddafi and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the series of uprisings which swept through the Middle East and North Africa from late 2010 have been burdened with the collective hopes and expectations of the world. Western supporters quickly identified these uprisings as a collective 'awakening' - a move towards democracy - but the continued unrest in these regions defies many of these more optimistic contemporary predictions. As the region remains unstable, the US and their Western allies are faced with the challenging task of modifying their strategic foreign policy goals to suit the currently mercurial Arab World. The 'Arab Spring' and its failure exposed a new set of questions: What motivates American 'democracy promotion'? Does the US really want self-determination in the Middle-East and North Africa? Where did the expectations of the protestors fit into this narrative? U.S. Approaches to the Arab Uprisings provides a comprehensive assessment of Western foreign policy towards the Arab World today. With analysis on subjects as diverse as social media and Islamic centrism, and drawing from examples throughout the MENA region, the book deals with the perception of Arabs and Arab culture in the American psyche and its effect on East-West relations. By analyzing both Western responses to uprisings and the reactions of the protestors themselves, the contributors expose theoretical and practical inconsistencies that suggest a rising tension between those that promote democracy and those who practice it."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Contesting the Dominant Narratives of the Arab Spring / Michael J. McNeal and Amentahru Wahlrab

Washington's Liberalist Ideological Stance and Contradictory Policies in the Middle East / Michael J. McNeal

Strategic or Democratic Interests? Framing US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Uprisings / Anthony R. DiMaggio

4. The Arab Spring, US Intervention in Libya, and the Lingering Politics of Rwandan Remorse / Isaac Kamola

5. Whither Wasatiyya? Locating Egypt's Liminal Actors Five Years after the Uprising / Michaelle Browers

6. Discourses of Democracy and Gender: How and Why Do Women's Rights Matter? / Meghana Nayak

7. Justin Zongo and the Place of the "Arab Spring": Repression, Resistance, and Revolution in Egypt and Burkina Faso / Nicholas A. Jackson

8. A Matter of Protest: the Arab Spring in Syria / Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh

9. Making Revolutionaries out of "Safe Citizens": Sovereignty, Political Violence, and the Arab Uprisings / Amentahru Wahlrab

10. The Arab Uprisings and Twenty-First-Century Global Crisis: Is There an Emerging Network of Global Dissent? / Eric Fattor

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350989634

1350989630

9781786733115

1786733110

9781786723116

1786723115

OCLC:

1114471703