The Real Issues Of The Middle East And The Arab Spring

Author : Thomas Andersson,Abdelkader Djeflat
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461452485

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The Real Issues of the Middle East and the Arab Spring by Thomas Andersson,Abdelkader Djeflat Pdf

The wave of protests and populist uprisings in the Middle East has heightened the focus on a volatile region. But the emphasis on political issues has obscured underlying issues concerning education, infrastructure, research, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable economic and social development. This volume, emerging in the aftermath of a conference and workshop on science and technology in the region, presents contributions from a range of experts from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States to provide fresh new insights and perspectives on the challenges and prospects for regional development in the changing global context of our time. The authors explore such topics as: the role of information and communication technologies; mindset change in support of investment in intangible assets and risk-taking; how to approach cultural issues, institutions and governance; collaborations with other regions, and; benchmarking performance while drawing lessons of relevance for the special local context. Ultimately, they offer a number of precise policy recommendations and practical insights for creating an enabling environment for capturing economic, political, and social opportunity.

Author : Mansoor Moaddel,Michele J. Gelfand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190269098

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Values, Political Action, and Change in the Middle East and the Arab Spring by Mansoor Moaddel,Michele J. Gelfand Pdf

Although many have tried, the spontaneity of the Arab Spring uprisings and the unpredictability of its diverse geographical outcomes have resisted explanation. For social scientists, part of the challenge has been how to effectively measure and analyze the empirical data, while another obstacle has been a lack of attention to the worldviews, value orientations, and long-term concerns from the people of the Middle East and North Africa. In order to meet these challenges head-on, Mansoor Moaddel and Michele J. Gelfand have assembled an international team of experts to explore and employ a new and diverse set of frameworks in order to explain the dynamics of cross-national variation, values, political engagement, morality, and development in these regions. To this end, the authors address a wide range of questions, such as: To what extent do recent events reflect changes in values among the Middle Eastern publics? Are youth uniformly more supportive of change than the rest of the population? To what extent are changes in values connected to changes in identities? How do we explain the process of change in the long term? As Moaddel and Gelfand remark in their book's introduction, "Our hope is that this collective effort will not only contribute to the development of the social sciences in the Middle East and North Africa, but also to practical political actions and public policies that serve social tolerance and harmony, peace, and economic prosperity for the people of the region."

Author : Phillipp O. Amour, Ph.D.
Publisher : Academica Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781680530704

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Middle East Reloaded by Phillipp O. Amour, Ph.D. Pdf

The Middle East is a center of ceaseless global attention. Since 2011, the long awaited and much celebrated Arab Spring uprisings portended a major shift in the politics of the Arab World. Notably, a number of Arab states witnessed institutional and constitutional shifts that put them on the path of transition to liberalization and democracy. Nevertheless, the Arab Spring followed a violent and unpredictable course. Although its events marked a break in the continuity of authoritarian dominance, most of its changes have not ultimately proved to be turning points in democratic development. The Arab Spring phenomenon witnessed a set of uprisings and even would-be-revolutions, but no great revolutionary change. Edited by Professor Philipp Amour of prestigious Sakarya University, this volume presents the work of numerous distinguished scholars, including many native to the region, who explore the fascinating variety of factors behind the rise and fall of the Arab Spring. As they establish, regional polarization and rivalries are the principal accompanying phenomena and side effects of the Arab Spring, and they will demand the world's attention for decades to come. Power dynamics between and among regional great powers have invited proactive, protracted, and very topical military and diplomatic involvement in domestic and regional politics. Some of these interventions will uphold the status quo, while others seem more likely to modify it for the powers' strategic advantage. Authored by leading world experts in Middle Eastern politics, this collection explores foreign and security policy of regional great powers such as Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and their roles in the construction of the new Middle East.

Author : Paul Amar,Vijay Prashad
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452940618

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Dispatches from the Arab Spring by Paul Amar,Vijay Prashad Pdf

The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab peoples and politics. Bringing together the knowledge of activists, scholars, journalists, and policy experts uniquely attuned to the pulse of the region, Dispatches from the Arab Spring offers an urgent and engaged analysis of a remarkable ongoing world-historical event that is widely misinterpreted in the West. Tracing the flows of protest, resistance, and counterrevolution in every one of the countries affected by this epochal change—from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Sudan—the contributors provide ground-level reports and new ways of teaching about and understanding the Middle East in general, and contextualizing the social upheavals and political transitions that defined the Arab Spring in particular. Rejecting outdated and invalid (yet highly influential) paradigms to analyze the region—from depictions of the “Arab street” as a mindless, reactive mob to the belief that Arab culture was “unfit” for democratic politics—this book offers fresh insights into the region’s dynamics, drawing from social history, political geography, cultural creativity, and global power politics. Dispatches from the Arab Spring is an unparalleled introduction to the changing Middle East and offers the most comprehensive and accurate account to date of the uprisings that profoundly reshaped North Africa and the Middle East. Contributors: Sheila Carapico, U of Richmond; Nouri Gana, UCLA; Toufic Haddad; Adam Hanieh, SOAS/U of London; Toby C. Jones, Rutgers U; Anjali Kamat; Khalid Medani, McGill U; Merouan Mekouar; Maya Mikdashi, NYU; Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto, U Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY; Ahmad Shokr; Susan Slyomovics, UCLA; Haifa Zangana.

Author : Jason Brownlee,Tarek E. Masoud,Tarek Masoud,Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660070

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The Arab Spring by Jason Brownlee,Tarek E. Masoud,Tarek Masoud,Andrew Reynolds Pdf

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. While Tunisia has made progress towards democracy, other countries that overthrew their rulers - Egypt, Yemen, and Libya - remain in authoritarianism and instability. This volume provides a foundational exploration of the Arab Spring's successes and failures.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199384419

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Beyond the Arab Spring by Mehran Kamrava Pdf

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Author : M. E. McMillan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137522023

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From the First World War to the Arab Spring by M. E. McMillan Pdf

Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East. This book seeks answers to pressing, contentious questions. Why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor? Why do Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East, yet support dictators? Why did Israel become a democracy while the Arab states did not? Why are there so many wars in the Middle East? And, most importantly, what happened to the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring? M.E. McMillan offers fresh answers to these difficult questions. Firmly grounded in historical research and insightful analysis of current events, this book gives readers a new understanding of what’s really going on in the Middle East.

Author : Larbi Sadiki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317650041

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Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring by Larbi Sadiki Pdf

The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval. The meme of the Arab Spring is characterised by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to provide a departure point for ongoing discussion of a fluid phenomenon on a plethora of topics, including: Contexts and contests of democratisation The sweep of the Arab Spring Egypt Women and the Arab Spring Agents of change and the technology of protest Impact of the Arab Spring in the wider Middle East and further afield Collating a wide array of viewpoints, specialisms, biases, and degrees of proximity and distance from events that shook the Arab world to its core, the Handbook is written with the reader in mind, to provide students, practitioners, diplomats, policy-makers and lay readers with contextualization and knowledge, and to set the stage for further discussion of the Arab Spring.

Author : Imad El-Anis,Natasha Underhill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443896351

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Regional Integration and National Disintegration in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East by Imad El-Anis,Natasha Underhill Pdf

This edited collection explores the processes of change currently shaping the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring context. The national and transnational challenges that have emerged since the uprisings in 2011 – particularly the increase in extremism, and the emergence and intensification of civil wars – have garnered significant attention in both media coverage and academic research. However, simultaneous (and far older) processes of regional integration – varying in form from free trade agreements like the Greater Arab Free Trade Area to economic and political unions like the Gulf Cooperation Council – have also been influenced by the changes of the past few years. This text draws together innovative new research from different fields to explore how far the changes shaping the Middle East are leading to the region’s polarisation between states that are integrating politically and economically with each other on the one hand, and states that are disintegrating internally on the other. The book includes contributions from scholars and practitioners from around the world, and who work in different fields including Middle Eastern studies, international relations, international political economy, foreign policy studies, and security studies. Chapters vary in focus and approach, with the first section focusing on security-related issues, particularly civil wars and terrorism. A second group of chapters looks at political economy in the region, and examines domestic, regional and global practices and processes, including foreign aid, trade, and development. A final group of chapters investigates socio-political and socio-cultural issues, including the role of civil society in the region, migration, and international law.

Author : Hüseyin Işıksal,Oğuzhan Göksel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319598970

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Turkey’s Relations with the Middle East by Hüseyin Işıksal,Oğuzhan Göksel Pdf

This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab Uprisings of 2011, the Syria Crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey, it illustrates the dramatic fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy towards key Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The contributors analyze Turkey’s deepening involvement in Middle Eastern regional affairs, also addressing issues such as terrorism, social and political movements and minority rights struggles. While these problems have traditionally been regarded as domestic matters, this book highlights their increasingly regional dimension and the implications for the foreign affairs of Turkey and countries in the Middle East.

Author : Kenneth M. Pollack,Daniel L. Byman,Akram Al-Turk,Pavel Baev,Michael S. Doran,Khaled Elgindy,Stephen R. Grand,Shadi Hamid,Bruce D. Jones,Suzanne Maloney,Jonathan D. Pollack,Bruce Riedel,Ruth Hanau Santini,Salman Shaikh,Ibrahim Sharqieh,Ömer Taşpınar,Shibley Telham,Sarah E. Yerkes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815722274

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The Arab Awakening by Kenneth M. Pollack,Daniel L. Byman,Akram Al-Turk,Pavel Baev,Michael S. Doran,Khaled Elgindy,Stephen R. Grand,Shadi Hamid,Bruce D. Jones,Suzanne Maloney,Jonathan D. Pollack,Bruce Riedel,Ruth Hanau Santini,Salman Shaikh,Ibrahim Sharqieh,Ömer Taşpınar,Shibley Telham,Sarah E. Yerkes Pdf

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustration erupted throughout the streets; public unrest provoked violent police backlash; long-established dictatorships fell. How did this all happen? What might the future look like, and what are the likely ramifications for the United States and the rest of the world? In The Arab Awakening, experts from the Brookings Institution tackle such questions to make sense of this tumultuous region that remains at the heart of U.S. national interests. The first portion of The Arab Awakening offers broad lessons by analyzing key aspects of the Mideast turmoil, such as public opinion trends within the "Arab Street"; the role of social media and technology; socioeconomic and demographic conditions; the influence of Islamists; and the impact of the new political order on the Arab-Israeli peace process. The next section looks at the countries themselves, finding commonalties and grouping them according to the political evolutions that have (or have not) occurred in each country. The section offers insight into the current situation, and possible trajectory of each group of countries, followed by individual nation studies. The Arab Awakening brings the full resources of Brookings to bear on making sense of what may turn out to be the most significant geopolitical movement of this generation. It is essential reading for anyone looking to understand these developments and their consequences.

Author : MARK. L. HAAS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367098083

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ARAB SPRING by MARK. L. HAAS Pdf

Author : David W. Lesch,Mark L. Haas
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0813348196

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The Arab Spring by David W. Lesch,Mark L. Haas Pdf

The Arab Spring unexpectedly developed in late 2010 with peaceful protests in a number of Arab countries against long-standing, entrenched regimes, and rapid political change across the region ensued. The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East examines these revolutions and their aftermath. Noted authorities writing specifically for this volume contribute chapters focusing on countries directly or indirectly involved, illuminating the immediate and long-term impacts of the revolutions in the region and throughout the world. A thoughtful concluding chapter ties together key themes, while also delineating persistent myths and misinterpretations. This is an essential volume for students and scholars of the Middle East, as well as anyone seeking a fuller understanding of region and what may lie ahead.

Author : Amr Yossef,Joseph Cerami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137504081

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The Arab Spring and the Geopolitics of the Middle East: Emerging Security Threats and Revolutionary Change by Amr Yossef,Joseph Cerami Pdf

In this study, which highlights a renewed emphasis in international affairs on regional studies, the co-authors provide an assessment of the revolutionary changes in the politics and security of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Author : Rita Stephan,Mounira M. Charrad
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479883035

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Women Rising by Rita Stephan,Mounira M. Charrad Pdf

Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.