Struggles for political change in the Arab world : regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring / Edited by Lisa Blaydes, Amr Hamzawy, and Hesham Sallam.

The advent of the Arab Spring in late 2010 was a hopeful moment for partisans of progressive change throughout the Arab world. Authoritarian leaders who had long stood in the way of meaningful political reform in the countries of the region were either ousted or faced the possibility of political if...

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Other Authors: Blaydes, Lisa, 1975- (Editor), Hamzawy, Amr (Editor), Sallam, Hesham (Editor)
Other title:Regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Series:Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : struggles for political change in the Arab world : regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring / Hesham Sallam, Lisa Blaydes, and Amr Hamzawy
  • Authoritarian narratives and practices in Egypt / Amr Hamzawy
  • The people vs. the palace : power and politics in Morocco since 2011 / Samia Errazzouki
  • Kuwait's changing landscape : palace projects and the decline of rule by consensus / Farah Al-Nakib
  • The decay of family rule in Saudi Arabia / Michael Herb
  • Syria's repressive peace / Samer Abboud
  • Mobilization without movement : opposition and youth activism in Jordan / Sean Yom
  • Cycles of contention in Lebanon / Lina Khatib
  • Algeria : anatomy of a revolutionary situation / Thomas Serres
  • The nexus of patronage, petrol, and population in Iraq / David Siddhartha Patel
  • Understanding the roots, dynamics, and potential of an "impossible" revolution : the prospects and challenges of democratization in Sudan / Khalid Mustafa Medani
  • Tunisia : the challenges of party consolidation and the specter of authoritarian reversal / Lindsay J. Benstead
  • Examining Yemen's post-2011 trajectory : from reform to war to many Yemens / April Longley Alley
  • U.S. influence on Arab regimes : from reluctant democracy supporter to authoritarian enabler / Sarah Yerkes
  • Chinese soft power projection in the Arab world : from the Belt and Road Initiative to global pandemic response / Lisa Blaydes
  • Iran's culture wars in the Arab world / Abbas Milani
  • The Arab counter-revolution : the formation of a regional alliance to undermine the Arab Spring / Toby Matthiesen
  • Myths of expansion : Turkey's changing policy in the Arab world / Ayça Alemdaroğlu and Gönül Tol
  • Conclusion : the ongoing struggle for political reform in the Arab world / Larry Diamond.