| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Abdelilah Bouasria and Uzi Rabi -- From Yesh to Ayin: the Arab Spring between resistance and resistivity / Abdelilah Bouasria -- Shadow economy and political stability: a blessing or a curse? / Mohammad Reza Farzanegan and Ahmed Mohamed Badreldin -- Defending economic privileges: the role of militaries in the Arab Spring / Elke Grawert -- When the ground shakes: the Arab Spring and its dynamics from the lens of complexity science / Douglas Kiel and Imane Hijal Moghrabi -- Indigene vs. alien in the Arab Spring: a view through the lens of invasion biology / Mathew Chew -- Climate hazards, food security and the Arab uprisings / Troy Sternberg, Franco Femia and Caitlin Werrell -- The illusion of democracy: electoral politics in Algeria over the course of the Arab Spring / Mohammed Redha Bougherira and Youcef Bouandel -- The Arab Spring's impact on the Persian Gulf monarchies / Christopher Davidson -- Middle powers and the Arab Spring: the case of Japanese policy toward Syria / Yukiko Miyagi -- Virtual reality: new media, the Arab Spring and the democratic revolution / Nir Boms -- A test of democracy: non-muslim minorities in Turkey / Duygu Atlas -- Soccer and autocracy: the case of Egypt / James M. Dorsey -- After the Arab Spring: economics and demographics / Paul Rivlin -- Dreams of the Arab Spring / Deirdre Barrett and Stanley Krippner -- Future scenarios for the states affected by the Arab Spring: insights from futures studies / Sohail Inayatullah |
| Summary |
Following the much-publicized self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi on 18 December 2010, a tempestuous succession of demonstrations, revolutions and civil wars swept the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. These events, collectively referred to as the "Arab Spring," spread contagiously throughout the Middle East and the Maghreb. But instead of ushering in tidy transitions of power in autocratic regimes, the revolutions and uprisings ushered in a state of chaos, which greatly complicates the task of analysts and historians whose job it is to make sense of what has taken place. Will the Arab Spring bring much needed change that benefits the Arab peoples or will instability and turmoil keep the Middle East in a perpetual state of what some have termed the "Arab winter"?Lost in Translation: New Paradigms for the Arab Spring is a contributory work by Middle East experts. As well as political and social analysis of the events and aftermath of the Arab Spring, the work provides a complex of paradigms (ranging from complexity studies to sport) which have thus far been overlooked by scholars and commentators in their assessments of Arab Spring manifestations. The result is unprecedented insights into the myriad forces that have inhibited genuine political and social transformations in the states of the Middle East and North Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Arab Spring, 2010- -- Influence
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HISTORY -- World.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century
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Middle East -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rābī, ʻŪzī, editor
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Būʻasrīyah, ʻAbd al-Ilāh, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782844174 |
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1782844171 |
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