Age of Counter-Revolution - States and Revolutions in the Middle East

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutions. Adding a new dimension to the history of revolutions, it addresses key debates in democratisation, authoritarian resilience and civil resistance.

List of contents

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?

About the author

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.

Summary

Examining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as successful counter-revolutions. Adding a new dimension to the history of revolutions, it addresses key debates in democratisation, authoritarian resilience and civil resistance.

Foreword

Examines the Arab Spring, seen as a series counter-revolutions, rather than failed revolutions, in six Arab countries.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie Allinson, Jamie (University of Edinburgh) Allinson, Allinson Jamie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781108484077
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48407-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Comparative Politics, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Pressure groups & lobbying, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions