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The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories
Fahed Al-Sumait
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The uprisings of 2011 have radically altered the political, economic, and social landscapes of the Middle East and North Africa. A clearer view of the recent past now provides greater perspectives on the causes and the consequences of these events. This collection of essays challenges the common tendency of applying the dominant frame of “Arab Spring” to explain contemporary politics of the Middle East. Numerous debates about the utility of the “Arab Spring” metaphor already exist, contesting such issues as its foreign origins or its temporal and optimistic implications. It further has the negative and significant side effect of implying ... Read more
The uprisings of 2011 have radically altered the political, economic, and social landscapes of the Middle East and North Africa. A clearer view of the recent past now provides greater perspectives on the causes and the consequences of these events. This collection of essays challenges the common tendency of applying the dominant frame of “Arab Spring” to explain contemporary politics of the Middle East. Numerous debates about the utility of the “Arab Spring” metaphor already exist, contesting such issues as its foreign origins or its temporal and optimistic implications. It further has the negative and significant side effect of implying ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442239012
SKU
V9781442239012
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About Fahed Al-Sumait
Editors: Michael Hudson is director of the Middle East Institute, professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore, and Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University, where he served as Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Fahed Al-Sumait is department chair and assistant professor of communication at the Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories
The contributors to this excellent volume treat the tumultuous politics of the contemporary Arab world in exactly the way it should be treated: from multi-disciplinary perspectives and with a ‘long view’ that minimizes the dangers of instant analysis based on current events. Rejecting monocausal explanations, this theoretically-rich collection illustrates the value of adopting a variety of analytical approaches to catalysts, ... Read more