Edward A. Lynch

The Arab Spring (eBook, PDF)

The Failure of the Obama Doctrine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring. As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action-or inaction-in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion. While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440876424
• Artikelnr.: 68251270

Autorenporträt

Edward A. Lynch, PhD, is John P. Wheeler Professor of Political Science at Hollins University. He is author of The Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America and numerous other works on U.S. foreign policy in the developing world.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Antecedents: The United States
and "Waves" of Revolution 3. The Arab Spring Begins: Revolution in Tunisia
4. The Arab Spring Gets Serious: Revolution in Egypt 5. The Arab Spring
Gets Dangerous: Revolution in Libya 6. The Arab Spring Gets Deadly: Red
Lines in Syria 7. The Arab Spring Is Preempted: Attempted Revolution in
Bahrain 8. The Arab Spring Becomes a Proxy War: Yemen 9. The Ripple Effects
of the Arab Spring: AQIM and ISIS 10. The Arab Spring Is Outmaneuvered:
Constitutional Change from Above in Morocco 11. The Arab Spring Creates New
Players: Turkey, Iran, Israel 12. Conclusion Epilogue: A Second Wave of
Arab Spring? Notes Index