The Arab Spring : The Failure of the Obama Doctrine / Edward A. Lynch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Edward A., author.

Series:

Praeger Security International.

Praeger Security International

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab Spring, 2010-.

United States--Foreign relations--Arab countries.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--2009-2017.

Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Middle East.

United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.

Arab countries--Foreign relations--United States.

Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Westport, CT : Praeger, 2021.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring. As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action-or inaction-in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion. While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Antecedents: The United States and "Waves" of Revolution 3. The Arab Spring Begins: Revolution in Tunisia 4. The Arab Spring Gets Serious: Revolution in Egypt 5. The Arab Spring Gets Dangerous: Revolution in Libya 6. The Arab Spring Gets Deadly: Red Lines in Syria 7. The Arab Spring Is Preempted: Attempted Revolution in Bahrain 8. The Arab Spring Becomes a Proxy War: Yemen 9. The Ripple Effects of the Arab Spring: AQIM and ISIS 10. The Arab Spring Is Outmaneuvered: Constitutional Change from Above in Morocco 11. The Arab Spring Creates New Players: Turkey, Iran, Israel 12. Conclusion Epilogue: A Second Wave of Arab Spring? Notes Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400613890

9798216048893

9781440876424

1440876428

OCLC:

1240831007