Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring: Rethinking Democratization - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041579093X ISBN 13: 9780415790932

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

The self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Tunisia in December 2010 heralded the arrival of the ‘Arab Spring,’ a startling, yet not unprecedented, era of profound social and political upheaval.

The meme of the Arab Spring is characterised by bottom-up change, or the lack thereof, and its effects are still unfurling today. The Routledge Handbook of the Arab Spring seeks to provide a departure point for ongoing discussion of a fluid phenomenon on a plethora of topics, including:

• Contexts and contests of democratisation
• The sweep of the Arab Spring
• Egypt
• Women and the Arab Spring
• Agents of change and the technology of protest
• Impact of the Arab Spring in the wider Middle East and further afield

Collating a wide array of viewpoints, specialisms, biases, and degrees of proximity and distance from events that shook the Arab world to its core, the Handbook is written with the reader in mind, to provide students, practitioners, diplomats, policy-makers and lay readers with contextualization and knowledge, and to set the stage for further discussion of the Arab Spring.

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About the Author

Larbi Sadiki is Associate Professor in Arab Democratisation (International Affairs & Political Science),Qatar University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041579093X
• ISBN 13: 9780415790932
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 718
• Editor: Sadiki Larbi