After the Arab Spring : : how the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts
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Includes index.
"When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: v, 247 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780230338197
0230338194
SUBJECTS
Revolutions -- Middle East.
Islam and politics -- Middle East.
Democratization -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.