Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution

Ronen A. Cohen

doi:10.5771/9780739176665

Summary

Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution engages with some of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East—revolutions and social protests. The book offers theoretical paradigms that suit the Middle East’s conditions—culturally, religiously and historically. It deals with seventeen case studies from a range of Muslim and Arab states and provides a theoretical framework to study other situations all over the world, including cases from the recent Arab Spring. Revolution, as political action, can occur in all societies, but in recent years it has appeared most frequently in the Middle East. Will this trend continue? What makes the Middle Eastern revolution unique and surprising? This book seeks to answer these questions, placing side by side those cases that were successful and those that were doomed to fail.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2014
Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-7665-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-7666-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 284
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
4. List of the Elements and Parameters Abbreviations No access
1. Ch01. Historical Background—Revolutions in Theories No access
2. Ch02. The Essential Components of Revolutionary Evolution and Development—A Theoretical Approach No access
3. Ch03. Revolution and Its Intellectuals—The Formation of New Dynamic Politics No access
4. Ch04. Fundamentalism and the Emergence of the Traditional Forces No access
1. Ch05. Algeria No access
2. Ch06. Egypt No access
3. Ch07. Iran No access
4. Ch08. Iraq No access
5. Ch09. Sudan—The Mahdiyyah No access
6. Ch10. Syria No access
7. Ch11. Turkey No access
1. Ch12. Case A—Al-Qaeda No access
2. Ch13. Case B—Black September Organization No access
3. Ch14. Case C—Hamas No access
4. Ch15. The Anti-State Paradigm in a Terror Organization’s Agenda—Taliban No access
5. Ch16. Conclusions No access
Epilogue No access Pages 259 - 262
Bibliography No access Pages 263 - 278
Index No access Pages 279 - 282
About the Author No access Pages 283 - 284