The Arab Spring

Critical Analyses
Herausgeber: Haseeb, Khair El-Din

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published as a special issue of Contemporary Arab Affairs, this volume provides a wealth of insider information as well as valuable analytical tools and models for understanding the Arab Spring.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9780415810364
• ISBN-10: 0415810361
• Artikelnr.: 36622294

Autorenporträt

Khair El-Din Haseeb is the founding Director of the Centre of Arab Unity Studies in Beirut and currently the Chairman of its Board of Trustees and Executive Committee. He has played a highly active and influential role in Arab nationalist concerns and initiatives since the 1970s. From 1976 to 1984, he served as Chief of the Natural Resources Science and Technology Division of the United Nations' Economic Commission of Western Asia. Previous to that he was Professor of Economics at the University of Baghdad and he served as Governor and Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Iraq from 1963 to 1965. He is the author of numerous books and articles in both Arabic and English including The Future of the Arab Nation (Routledge, 1991), Arab-Iranian Relations (British Academic Press, 1998), and, The Arabs and Africa (Croom Helm, 1985). Youssef Mohammed Sawani is the Acting Director General for the Centre of Arab Unity Studies in Beirut and Professor of Political Science at the University of Tripoli, Libya. With a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK, he is also Editor-in-Chief of Al Mostaqbal Al Arabi in Beirut and a member of the Editorial Board of Contemporary Arab Affairs. He is the author of numerous books and articles in both English and Arabic, including 'The 'end of pan-Arabism' revisited: reflections on the Arab Spring', Contemporary Arab Affairs 5 (3), 2012; and, co-edited with Abd Al Illah Belqaziz, Revolution and Democratic Transition in the Arab World: A Road Map (Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2012, Arabic text).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the Arab Spring: critical analyses 2. The Arab Spring
Revisited 3. The Arab revolutions: the emergence of a new political
subjectivity 4. The Socio-Economic factors behind the revolutions of the
Arab Spring 5. The Arab Spring: breaking the chains of authoritarianism and
postponed democracy 6. War of Creative Destruction: the central tendency in
the globalized Arab revolutions (a study in the formation of the future) 7.
The revolutions of the Arab Spring: are democracy, development and
modernity at the gates? 8. On the Arab 'Democratic Spring': lessons derived
9. Post-Qadhafi Libya: interactive dynamics and the political future 10.
Libya...hopes and fears11. Syria...the road to where? 12. Morocco and
democratic transition: a reading of the constitutional amendments, their
contexts and results 13. Political Islam in Morocco: negotiating the
Kingdom's liberal space 14. Copts in Egypt and Their Demands: Between
Inclusion and Exclusion 15. Suleiman: Mubarak decided to step down #egypt
#jan25 OH MY GOD': examining the use of social media in the 2011 Egyptian
revolution 16. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the January 25 Revolution:
new political party, new circumstances 17. Repercussions of the Arab
movements for democracy on the Saudi Street 18. Repercussions of the Arab
movements for democracy in Bahrain 19. Palestinian youth and the Arab
Spring. Learning to think critically: a case study 20. Epilogue: The 'End
of Pan-Arabism' revisited: reflections on the Arab Spring