European University Institute Library

Civil resistance in the Arab Spring, triumphs and disasters, edited by Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Civil resistance in the Arab Spring

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913852718

edited by Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy, Timothy Garton Ash

triumphs and disasters

Civil resistance, especially in the form of massive peaceful demonstrations, was at the heart of the Arab Spring-the chain of events in the Middle East and North Africa that erupted in December 2010. It won some notable victories: popular movements helped to bring about the fall of authoritarian governments in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Yet these apparent triumphs of non-violent action were followed by disasters-wars in Syria, anarchy in Libya and Yemen, reversion to authoritarian rule in Egypt, and counter-revolution backed by external intervention in Bahrain. Looming over these events was the enduring divide between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam. Why did so much go wrong? Was the problem the methods, leadership and aims of the popular movements, or the conditions of their societies? In this book, experts on these countries, and on the techniques of civil resistance, set the events in their historical, social and political contexts. They describe how governments and outside powers-including the US and EU-responded, how Arab monarchies in Jordan and Morocco undertook to introduce reforms to avert revolution, and why the Arab Spring failed to spark a Palestinian one.--, Provided by Publisher

The background to civil resistance in the Middle East / Chibli Mallat and Edward Mortimer -- Revolt for dignity : Tunisia's revolution and civil resistance / Michael J. Willis -- Egypt's unfinished revolution / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Revolution and counter-revolution in Bahrain / Elham Fakhro -- Civil resistance in Libya during the Arab Spring / George Joffé -- The change squares of Yemen : civil resistance in an unlikely context / Helen Lackner -- Hirak! : civil resistance and the Jordan Spring / Jacob Amis -- Morocco : obedience, civil resistance, and dispersed solidarities / Driss Maghraoui -- Civil resistance in the Syrian uprising : from peaceful protest to sectarian civil war / Raymond Hinnebusch, Omar Imady, and Tina Zintl -- Palestine and the Arab uprisings / Wendy Pearlman -- Civil resistance and the fate of the Arab Spring / Adam Roberts