Jamie Allinson

Age of Counter-Revolution (eBook, PDF)

States and Revolutions in the Middle East

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, this book shows how these profoundly revolutionary situations were overturned by counter-revolutions. Placing the fate of the Arab uprisings in a global context, Allinson reveals how counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to the decade of global protest that followed them, this innovative work demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered it near impossible to implement political change without first enacting fundamental social transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108625944
• Artikelnr.: 66178604

Autorenporträt

Jamie Allinson is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in the politics of the Middle East. A founding editor of the quarterly magazine Salvage, he is the author of The Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East (2015), which was co-winner of the Jadaliyya Political Economy Book Prize in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Another world was possible?
2. What is counter-revolution?
3. The revolutionary situations
4. Political revolutions and counter-revolutions: Tunisia and Egypt
5. Militarising counter-revolution: Syria and Bahrain
6. From revolution to state collapse: Libya and Yemen
7. Revolutionary states? Isis and Rojava
8. Conclusion: Where is counter-revolution going?