Arab Winter - Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists

Compares experiences of the Arab Spring for a comprehensive account of how nations handled the challenge of democratic consolidation.

List of contents

Table of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Tunisia; 2. Egypt; 3. Libya; 4. Yemen; 5. Broken states: Iraq, Syria and ISIS; 6. Summary and conclusions; Index.

About the author

Stephen J. King is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University and the author of Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia (2003), The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa (2009), and co-editor of The Lure of Authoritarianism: The Maghreb After the Arab Spring (2019). He has published multiple articles and book chapters on the politics of economic reform and regime transition processes in the Arab world.

Summary

Comparing the experiences of different countries before, during, and after the Arab Spring, this is a broad but focused account of how societies, including those of Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, and Tunisia, handled the challenge of democratic consolidation.

Additional text

'In his valuable new book, Stephen J. King offers a new take on the trajectories of the Arab Uprising states. While most analyses have focused on authoritarian breakdown, King focuses on the requisites of democratic consolidation: consensus via pacts on key issues. This enables a deeper understanding of the variation in post-uprising trajectories between the one case of relative consoiidation, Tunisia, and authoritarian restoration or state failure elsewhere.' Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St Andrews

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J King, Stephen J. King, Stephen J. (Georgetown University King, King Stephen J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108708661
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70866-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Lebanon, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Iraq, Political science and theory, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements