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Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
Compares the crucial role of Arab armies in state building, a decade after the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.
The State in North Africa
A seasoned expert on the Maghreb offers a fine-grained analysis of the region's politics in a time of upheaval.
The New Global Politics
Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America, to the Arab Spring, to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe, to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave. Spanning case studies from Latin America, North and South Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America, this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest, which emerged fro...
Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa
Before the 2011 uprisings, the Middle East and North Africa were frequently seen as a uniquely undemocratic region with little civic activism. The first edition of this volume, published at the start of the Arab Spring, challenged these views by revealing a region rich with social and political mobilizations. This fully revised second edition extends the earlier explorations of Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, and adds new case studies on the uprisings in Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen. The case studies are inspired by social movement theory, but they also critique and expand the horizons of the theory's classical concepts of political opportunity structures, collective action frames, mobilization structures, and repertoires of contention based on intensive fieldwork. This strong empirical base allows for a nuanced understanding of contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, the strengths and weaknesses of local networks, and innovation in contentious action to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011.
Protests and Generations: Legacies and Emergences in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean
The aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Philosophy of Nonviolence
In 2011, the Middle East saw more people peacefully protesting long entrenched dictatorships than at any time in its history. The dictators of Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen were deposed in a matter of weeks by nonviolent marches. Imprecisely described as 'the Arab Spring', the revolution has been convulsing the whole region ever since. Beyond an uneven course in different countries, Philosophy of Nonviolence examines how 2011 may have ushered in a fundamental break in world history. The break, the book argues, is animated by nonviolence as the new spirit of the philosophy of history. Philosophy of Nonviolence maps out a system articulating nonviolence in the revolution, the rule of constitutiona...
La Fin du Parti-?tat en Tunisie
La Tunisie pourra passer du tout puissant «parti-Etat» résistant encore à tout changement et du parti unique ayant caractérisé le régime déchu de l’ex- président Ben Ali ?. Cette question est fondamentale d’ordre juridique, politique et historique D’autant que la réponse à cette interrogation porte à la fois de surcroit un intérêt scientifique et méthodologique. Descriptor(s): POLITICAL HISTORY | REVOLUTIONS | POLITICAL CONDITIONS | POLITICAL PARTIES | DEMOCRACY | TUNISIA
Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion
The promotion of political reform, participation, human rights and democracy on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean was a key objective for the European Union as it prepared the Barcelona conference in 1995. Today it is clear that these policies have failed to prompt an end to authoritarian rule. The authors of Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion analyse why EU policies have not produced major political impact, while remaining sensitive to changes that may translate into greater participation and respect for civil liberties. The question at the heart of this volume is whether the erosion of democracy in the north, compounded by the effects of 9/11, has affected the promotion of democracy in the south. The failure of democracy in the south may well be linked to authoritarian trends on a global scale. Contributors include Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, Gilles Massardier, Eric Gobe, Oliver Schlumberger, Isabel Schäfer, Robert Springborg, Holger Albrecht, Virginie Collombier, Marc Lazar and Mohamed Mouaquit.
الانتفاضات العربية على ضوء فلسفة التاريخ
هل تحوّل الربيع العربي إلى خريف أصولي كما يقول البعض؟+++فاجأت الانتفاضات العربية معظم المثقّفين العرب والأجانب عندما انفجرت كالقنبلة الموقوتة بعد طول احتقان. وأشاعت في الجو نكهة جديدة من عبق الحرّية والانعتاق. ولكن يبدو أن الشباب الذين دشّنوها ليسوا هم الذين قطفوا ثمرتها في نهاية المطاف، وإنما التنظيمات الإخوانية – السلفية.+++يحاول الكتاب قراءة الظاهرة من خلال منظور فلسفي بعيد المدى. ويتساءل:+++لماذا تبدو الانتفاضات العربية أقرب إلى الثورات الدينية منها إلى الثورات العلمانية الحديثة؟+++هل كان يمكن للثورة الفرنسية أن تدشّن عالم الحداثة والحرّية لولا أن فلاسفة التنوير كانوا قد سبقوها ومهّدوا لها الطريق ...؟
Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France
Will Islam be able to adapt to France's secularity and its strict separation of public and private spheres? Can France accommodate Muslims? In this book, Frank Peter argues that the debate about “Islam” and “Muslims” is not simply caused by ignorance or Islamophobia. Rather, it is an integral part of how secularism is reasoned. Islam and the Governing of Muslims in France shows that understanding religion as separate from other aspects of life, such as politics, economy, and culture, disregards the ways religion has operated and been managed in “secular” societies such as France. This book uncovers the varying rationalities of the secular that have developed over the past few decades in France to “govern Islam,” in order to examine how Muslims engage with the secular regime and contribute to its transformation. This book offers a close analysis of French secularism as it has been debated by Islamic intellectuals and activists from the 1990s until the present. It will influence the study of secularism as well as the study of Islam in the French Republic, and reveal new connections between Islamic traditions and secular rationalities.
