Loading...

The Arab Spring: pathways of repression and reform/

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East. The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass mobilization swept the broader Middle East, toppled dictators, and cleared the way for democracy. The reality is that few Ar...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brownlee, Jason
Other Authors: Masoud, Tarek, Reynolds, Andrew
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Theorizing the Arab Spring
  • Lineages of repression
  • Breakdowns and crackdowns
  • Post-breakdown trajectories
  • Why breakdowns did not always produce transitions
  • Limits and legacies of the Arab Spring.