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Author : Dana M. Moss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781009272155
Moss presents a new theoretical framework for explaining when anti-authoritarian diaspora movements emerge and become transnational agents of change.
Author : Dana M Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108980031
"The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has long fascinated Western observers, more often than not out of a sense of misguided curiosity. Owing to imperialism, Orientalism, and enduring stereotypes, commentary has revolved around a central query: Why is the region and its people so "backward"? The social sciences have remained focused on this question, albeit in a modified form, since the fall of the Soviet Union (Bayat 2013; Munif 2020). As researchers looked optimistically to a post-1989 future that appeared to be liberalizing, they asked why the wave of democracy sweeping the formerly colonized world had bypassed the MENA region. The answer provided, in one form or another, was that regimes led by autocrats, kings, and presidents-for-life were too powerful and the people too weak-too loyal, apathetic, divided, and tribal-to mount a credible challenge to authoritarian rule"--
Author : Dana M. Moss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1339829029
In 2011, the Arab Spring revolutionary movements that erupted across the Middle East galvanized supporters in the diaspora to work collectively for regime change and relief at home. Existing theories argue that diasporas residing in democratic states possess the requisite political opportunities and resources to mobilize on behalf of their home-countries and intervene in significant ways. However, this explanation cannot account for why diaspora movements only emerge and play a role in home-country crises under certain conditions. This dissertation therefore investigates 1) how members of the Libyan, Syrian, and Yemeni diasporas in the US and Great Britain mobilized to support the 2011 uprisings, and asks 2) why the pace of their public emergence as regime opponents, their degree of intra-movement solidarity, the strength of their roles in the revolutions, and the short-term outcomes of their efforts varied significantly by national group. In order to explain this variation, this study analyzes three sets of data using grounded and process-tracing methods: 240 original interviews; ethnographic participant observations of Syrian-American pro-revolution events; and secondary sources on the diasporas and the revolutions.The findings demonstrate that diaspora mobilization dynamics are shaped by multi-level and relational factors that not only include political opportunities in the host-country, but also conditions in and diasporas' relations with relevant actors in the home-country---including sending-state regimes and opposition movements---and relevant third-parties, such as journalists and international institutions. I find that quotidian disruptions to any one of these conditions and relations produce corresponding changes in the strength and longevity of diasporas' collective actions. This study also demonstrates that activists overcome obstacles to transnational mobilization posed by hostile external conditions when they divert resources to establish full-time formal advocacy organizations. Though this strategic adaptation constrains their tactics, movements that do not make this adaptation are likely to die off. The establishment of a transnational organizational field also improves the capacity of diasporas to pursue rights and recognition in both the home- and host-countries over time. I conclude by discussing the theoretical implications of these findings for the study of social movements, diasporas, and conflict.
Author : Lea Müller-Funk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351048712
Diaspora politics is often expressed as an emancipating experience and can therefore give agency to migrants. Yet, rather than interpreting transnational political practices as globally liberal or cosmopolitan, Müller-Funk’s findings underline that diaspora politics is a highly diverse political field which can reinforce political fragmentation among migrant collectivities. This volume explores the controversial topic of diaspora politics: the political activities of migrants who aim to influence the domestic or foreign policy of their country of origin. The revolutions in 2010/11 represented a major political upheaval in the Middle East, which politicised Arabs across borders on a grand scale. Müller-Funk explores the links between recent political developments in Egypt between 2011 and 2013 and emigration. More specifically, she examines the question of how the revolution in and its aftermath influenced emigrants’ political perceptions and actions regarding their homeland. The book takes an interdisciplinary macro and micro approach by investigating policies which influence migrants’ political transnational behavior as well as by looking at individual activists’ perspectives. This volume will be of great interest to scholars of international relations, security studies, political theory, politics and middle east studies.
Author : Sujata Ashwarya,Mujib Alam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Arab Spring, 2010-
ISBN : 3959941595
It has been more a decade since people across the Arab world rose up in revolt against their governments, demanding political empowerment, social reform and economic improvement. Pro-democracy protests, as they were called in common parlance, which spread rapidly through the mobilisation of social media calls, ended up overthrowing long-standing authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya. That gave rise to hope for a more representative future, a.
Author : K. Scott Parker,Tony E. Nasrallah
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1463206534
Ethnic and linguistic minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Re-considering minorities' position in the Middle East : the Kurdish case in Syria / Eva Savelsberg and Jordi Tejel -- The Amazigh in post-revolution Libya : a century of struggle / Todd M. Thompson and Youcef Bouandel -- The Armenian Christian minority in greater Syria -- And the Arab Spring / Darina Saliba Abi Chedid -- Religious minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Adapting to shifting ground : the Alawites of the Northern Levant / Leon T. Goldsmith -- The Druze and the Arab Spring / Lubna Tarabey -- Syrian Ismailis and the Arab Spring : seasons of death and white carnations / Otared Haidar -- The Christians of Syria and the Arab Spring / Habib C. Malik -- Middle Eastern minorities and the Arab Spring -- The Christians of Lebanon and the Arab Spring / Michael Abi Semaan and Tony E. Nasrallah -- The easy enemy : the shia and sectarianism in the Arab states of the Gulf and Yemen during the Arab Spring / Jessie Moritz -- Other minorities in the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Palestinians at home and in the diasporas and the Arab Spring / Bernard Sabella -- A spring abroad : exploring the case of Tunisian diasporas in Europe / Claire Demesmay, Sabine Russ-Sattar, Katrin Sold
Author : Zbigniew Wojnowski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442631076
In The Near Abroad, Zbigniew Wojnowski traces how Soviet Ukrainian identities developed in dialogue and confrontation with the USSR's neighbours in Eastern Europe.
Author : David Ottaway,Marina Ottaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190061715
About the separate trajectories of the Levant, the Gulf, Egypt and the Maghreb after the Arab Spring uprisings
Author : Siobhan Shilton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842525
Examines art by over twenty-five artists to enable a greater understanding of the 'Arab Uprisings' and of the term 'revolution'.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:972008517
Author : Kristian Ulrichsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190210977
Qatar and the Arab Spring offers a frank examination of Qatar's startling rise to regional and international prominence, describing how its distinctive policy stance toward the Arab Spring emerged. In only a decade, Qatari policy-makers - led by the Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and his prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani - catapulted Qatar from a sleepy backwater to a regional power with truly international reach. In addition to pursuing an aggressive state-branding strategy with its successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar forged a reputation for diplomatic mediation that combined intensely personalized engagement with financial backing and favorable media coverage through the Al-Jazeera. These factors converged in early 2011 with the outbreak of the Arab Spring revolts in North Africa, Syria, and Yemen, which Qatari leaders saw as an opportunity to seal their regional and international influence, rather than as a challenge to their authority, and this guided their support of the rebellions against the Gaddafi and Assad regimes in Libya and Syria. From the high watermark of Qatari influence after the toppling of Gaddafi in 2011, that rapidly gave way to policy overreach in Syria in 2012, Coates Ulrichsen analyses Qatari ambition and capabilities as the tiny emirate sought to shape the transitions in the Arab world.
Author : Martin Indyk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1416597255
Making peace in the long-troubled Middle East is likely to be one of the top priorities of the next American president. He will need to take account of the important lessons from past attempts, which are described and analyzed here in a gripping book by a renowned expert who served twice as U.S. ambassador to Israel and as Middle East adviser to President Clinton. Martin Indyk draws on his many years of intense involvement in the region to provide the inside story of the last time the United States employed sustained diplomacy to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and change the behavior of rogue regimes in Iraq and Iran. Innocent Abroad is an insightful history and a poignant memoir. Indyk provides a fascinating examination of the ironic consequences when American naïveté meets Middle Eastern cynicism in the region's political bazaars. He dissects the very different strategies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to explain why they both faced such difficulties remaking the Middle East in their images of a more peaceful or democratic place. He provides new details of the breakdown of the Arab-Israeli peace talks at Camp David, of the CIA's failure to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and of Clinton's attempts to negotiate with Iran's president. Indyk takes us inside the Oval Office, the Situation Room, the palaces of Arab potentates, and the offices of Israeli prime ministers. He draws intimate portraits of the American, Israeli, and Arab leaders he worked with, including Israel's Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon; the PLO's Yasser Arafat; Egypt's Hosni Mubarak; and Syria's Hafez al-Asad. He describes in vivid detail high-level meetings, demonstrating how difficult it is for American presidents to understand the motives and intentions of Middle Eastern leaders and how easy it is for them to miss those rare moments when these leaders are willing to act in ways that can produce breakthroughs to peace. Innocent Abroad is an extraordinarily candid and enthralling account, crucially important in grasping the obstacles that have confounded the efforts of recent presidents. As a new administration takes power, this experienced diplomat distills the lessons of past failures to chart a new way forward that will be required reading.
Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107028630
The New Middle East critically examines the Arab popular uprisings of 2011-12.
Author : Hannah R. Gerber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463004718
Education and the Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, and Democracy explores the current debate about education in the Middle East and North Africa post-Arab Spring. It draws from a variety of conceptual frameworks rooted in different disciplines and fields, such as education, religious and cultural studies, political science, and Arab studies. The book is, in part, a response to an increased demand since the Arab Spring – by universities, cultural institutions, think-tanks, education officials, policymakers and journalists – for a richer, deeper understanding of the role of education in post-Arab Spring states and societies. The book adds a unique and much-needed perspective to this field: its specific focus is on the Arab context, and its analysis is of issues of particular relevance to a changing world order. The great mix of experiences of the contributors attests to the excellent quality of this promising work. “It is not infrequent to hear sweeping but general criticisms of all aspects of educational systems in the Arab world – everything from textbooks to teaching methodologies have come under scrutiny. The authors of this collection seek to move the debate beyond generalities by providing detailed studies; while informed by a sense of the inadequacy of existing systems, they also provide an empirically rich analysis of existing systems.” – Nathan Brown, George Washington University, USA
Author : Beverley Milton-Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317333654
The Muslim Brotherhood is the most significant and enduring Sunni Islamist organization of the contemporary era. Its roots lie in the Middle East but it has grown into both a local and global movement, with its well-placed branches reacting effectively to take the opportunities for power and electoral competition offered by the Arab Spring. Regarded by some as a force of moderation among Islamists, and by others as a façade hiding a terrorist fundamentalist threat, the potential influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on Middle Eastern politics remains ambiguous. The Muslim Brotherhood: The Arab Spring and its Future Face provides an essential insight into the organisation, with chapters devoted to specific cases where the Brotherhood has important impacts on society, the state and politics. Key themes associated with the Brotherhood, such as democracy, equality, pan-Islamism, radicalism, reform, the Palestine issue and gender, are assessed to reveal an evolutionary trend within the movement since its founding in Egypt in 1928 to its manifestation as the largest Sunni Islamist movement in the Middle East in the 21st century. The book addresses the possible future of the Muslim Brotherhood; whether it can surprise sceptics and effectively accommodate democracy and secular trends, and how its ascension to power through the ballot box might influence Western policy debates on their engagement with this manifestation of political Islam. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book presents a comprehensive study of a newly resurgent movement and is a valuable resource for students, scholars and policy makers focused on Middle Eastern Politics.