Title Arab society in revolt : the West's Mediterranean challenge / Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy, editors

Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations Contents Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Introduction / Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy -- PART ONE, SOCIETAL CHANGE IN THE ARAB MUSLIM WORLD -- 1. Demography, migration, and revolt in the southern Mediterranean / Philippe Fargues -- 2. Islamic revival and democracy : the case in Tunisia and Egypt / Olivier Roy -- 3. The changing role of women in society / Maria Cristina Paciello and Renata Pepicelli -- 4. Mediterranean Islamic expression and Web 2.0 / Gary R. Bunt -- 5. Modern commercial and social entrepreneurship as a factor of change / Gonzalo Escribano and Alejandro Lorca -- 6. The economics of Arab transitions / Caroline Freund and Carlos A. Primo Braga -- PART TWO, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY OPTIONS -- 7. Midwife or spectator? U.S. policies toward North Africa in the twenty-first century / Jonathan Laurence -- 8. The power of false analogies : misunderstanding political Islam in a post-totalitarian world / Alan Wolfe -- 9. Societal changes and political responses in Euro-Mediterranean relations / Roberto Aliboni -- 10. The West and the Islamist challenge : toward a common religious market? / Olivier Roy -- 11. The challenge of a changing Arab Islam in future transatlantic relations / Cesare Merlini Summary For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses throughwhich to examine them. One of the several virtues of this book is precisely that it bringsdifferent perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of recent andcurrent events in the Arab world. The thirteen authors concentrate on the critical socialforces shaping the region-demography, religion, gender, telecommunication connectivity, and economic structures-and they are painstakingly analyzed and evaluated.-from the foreword by Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution> Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Social change -- Mediterranean Region Islam and politics -- Mediterranean Region SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle Eastern. Economic history Diplomatic relations Islam and politics Social change Social conditions Arabische lente. Opstanden. SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005010 Mediterranean Region -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005009 United States -- Foreign relations -- Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations -- United States European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Mediterranean Region Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries Subject European Union countries Mediterranean Region United States Arabische wereld. Noord-Afrika. Form Electronic book Author Merlini, Cesare Roy, Olivier, 1949- ISBN 9780815723974 0815723970

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