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In 2011, the world watched as dictators across the Arab world were toppled from power. In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, ordinary Arab citizens mobilized across the region during the Arab Spring to reinvent the autocratic Arab world into one characterized by democracy, dignity, socioeconomic justice, and inviolable human rights. This unique comparative analysis of countries before, during and after the Arab Spring seeks to explain the divergent outcomes, disappointing and even harrowing results of efforts to overcome democratic consolidation challenges, from the tentative democracy in Tunisia to the emergence of the Islamic State, and civil war and authoritarian retrenchment everywhere else. Tracing the period of the Arab Spring from its background in long-term challenges to autocratic regimes, to the mass uprisings, authoritarian breakdown, and the future projections and requirements for a democratizing conclusion, Stephen J. King establishes a broad but focused history which refines the leading theory of democratization in comparative politics, and realigns the narrative of Arab Spring history by bringing its differing results to the fore.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139781108708661
eBay Product ID (ePID)13046421559
Product Key Features
Number of Pages338 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists
Publication Year2020
SubjectGovernment, Politics
TypeTextbook
AuthorStephen J. King
Subject AreaPolitical Science
Dimensions
Item Height228 mm
Item Weight490 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorStephen J. King