The Arab Revolution of 2011: A Comparative Perspective (SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438454880 ISBN 13: 9781438454887

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2016

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Reseña del editor:

Comparative analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

The Arab Revolution of 2011 brings together a broad range of perspectives to explain the causes, processes, and consequences of the revolution of 2011 and its critical implications for the future. The contributors, in this major addition to the sociology of revolutions, step back from the earlier euphoria of the Arab Spring to provide a sober analysis of what is still an ongoing process of upheaval in the Middle East. The essays address the role of national armies and foreign military intervention, the character and structure of old regimes as determinants of peaceful or violent political transformation, the constitutional placement of Islam in post-revolutionary regimes, and the possibilities of supplanting authoritarianism with democracy. The revolution of 2011 is also examined within a broad historical perspective, comparing the dynamics of revolution and counterrevolution in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya with such epochal events as the European revolution of 1848 and Russia in 1917.

Biografía del autor:

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, both also published by SUNY Press.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1438454880
• ISBN 13: 9781438454887
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
• Herausgeber: Arjomand Saïd Amir