The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

The Arab uprisings of 2011 and 2012 pose stark challenges to the political science of the Middle East, which for decades had focused upon the resilience of entrenched authoritarianism, the relative weakness of civil society, and what seemed to be the largely contained diffusion of new norms and ideas through new information technologies. Compiled by one of the foremost experts on Middle East politics and society, The Arab Uprisings Explained presents a new framework through which scholars and general readers can better grasp the fast-developing events remaking the region, advancing the study of political science in the Middle East while integrating the subject seamlessly into the wider political science literature.

The Arab Uprisings Explained offers a fresh rethinking of established theories and presents a new framework through which scholars and general readers can better grasp the fast-developing events remaking the region