Arab Spring - Negotiating in the Shadow of the Intifadat

Informationen zum Autor I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies! Johns Hopkins University! and former president of the Middle East Studies Associations and of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. Zartman has written! edited! or coedited some twenty books! including "Understanding Life in the Borderlands: Boundaries in Depth and in Motion" (Georgia). Klappentext Beginning in January 2011! the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity! liberty! and achievable purpose in life! rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant! corrupt! unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished! country specific case studies of the uprisings and their still unfolding political aftermaths identify patterns and courses of negotiation and explain why and how they occur. Zusammenfassung Using the Arab Spring uprising as a springboard! the essays analyze the challenges of uprisers and emerging governments in building a new state on the ruins of a liberated state; the negotiations that lead either to sustainable democracy or sectarian violence; and coalition building between former political and military adversaries.

Product details

• Authors: I. William (EDT) Zartman
• Assisted by: Scott Jones (Editor), William Keller (Editor), I. Zartman (Editor), I. William Zartman (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2015
• EAN: 9780820348247
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4824-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and International Affairs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science