People Want (eBook)

Gilbert Achcar, G M Goshgarian (Autoren)

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2022
416 Seiten
Saqi (Verlag)
978-0-86356-832-9 (ISBN)

Infos

'The people want' - thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the 'Arab Spring'. ?While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they also laid bare a deep structural crisis. In this landmark work, Middle East analyst Gilbert Achcar examines the socio-economic roots and political dynamics of the regional upheaval. He assesses the peculiarities of the region's states and regimes, and sheds light on the movements that use Islam as a political banner. Achcar argues that the Arab Spring was but the beginning of a long-term revolutionary process - a perspective confirmed by a second wave of uprisings in 2019 - and outlines the requirements for a solution to the crisis. This new edition features a preface drawing a balance sheet of the upheaval's first decade.

Autor

Gilbert Achcar is Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at SOAS, University of London. His other works include Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky, and the critically-acclaimed The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.3.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abdel Moneim Aboul-Fotouh • al-assad • Algeria • Al Jazeera • Arab • Arab protestors • arab spring • Arab Uprisings • Assad • Bahrain • Capitalism • Civil War • Colonialism • ECONOMI • Egypt • Gamal Abdel-Nasser • GDP • George Bush • Gilbert Achcar • Habib Bourguiba • Hassan al-Banna • Iraq • Islam • Islamist • Israel: Lebanon • Libya • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Marxism • Middle East • Mohamed Bouazizi • Muammar Gaddafi • Muslim Brotherhood • North Africa • Palestine • Political Islam • Power • Qatar • Regime • Revolution • Shia • Social Media • Sunni • Syria • Tunisia • Twitter • United Nations • uprisings • World Bank • Yemen • Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
• ISBN-10: 0-86356-832-7 / 0863568327
• ISBN-13: 978-0-86356-832-9 / 9780863568329