After the Arab spring : how the Islamists hijacked the Middle East revolts / John R. Bradley.
| Author/creator |
Bradley, John R., 1970- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description | v, 247 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | An Arab Spring? -- The death of Tunisia's secularism -- Egypt's Islamist future -- The Wahhabi counterrevolution -- The Shia axis -- Lessons from Southeast Asia -- What next? |
| Abstract | "When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011040890 |
| ISBN | 9780230338197 |
| ISBN | 0230338194 (hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | DS63.18 .B73 2012 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |