The Arab Winter (eBook)

A Tragedy

Noah Feldman (Autor)

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2020
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20144-3 (ISBN)

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination.Focusing on the Egyptian revolution and counterrevolution, the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and the Tunisian struggle toward Islamic constitutionalism, Feldman provides an original account of the political consequences of the Arab Spring, including the reaffirmation of pan-Arab identity, the devastation of Arab nationalisms, and the death of political Islam with the collapse of ISIS. He also challenges commentators who say that the Arab Spring was never truly transformative, that Arab popular self-determination was a mirage, and even that Arabs or Muslims are less capable of democracy than other peoples.Above all, The Arab Winter shows that we must not let the tragic outcome of the Arab Spring disguise its inherent human worth. People whose political lives had been determined from the outside tried, and for a time succeeded, in making politics for themselves. That this did not result in constitutional democracy or a better life for most of those affected doesn't mean the effort didn't matter. To the contrary, it matters for history-and it matters for the future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.5.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 1982 Hama massacre • 2003 Invasion of Iraq • Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi • activism • aftermath of Arab spring • Alawi • alawites • Algeria • Ali Abdullah Saleh • Al Jazeera • American imperialism • Ancien Régime • Anti-Imperialism • Anwar Sadat • Arab identity • Arab nationalism • arabs • arab spring • Arab Winter • Assad • authoritarianism • autocracy • Bashar al-Assad • Caliphate • Civil Society • Coalition Government • Collective Action • Colonialism • consequences of Arab spring • Constitution • Constitutionalism • de facto • defeat of ISIS • Democracy • Democratization • Dictatorship • Dystopia • egyptians • Election • el Sisi • Ennahda • Ennahda Movement • fall of ISIS • false dawn • Forms of Government • Governance • Government • Hafez al-Assad • Hannah Arendt • history of Arab spring • Hosni Mubarak • Ideology • imperialism • Imperial Overstretch • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • ISIL • Islamic Exceptionalism • Islamism • Islamization • Lecture • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liberalization • Meaning of Arab spring • Middle East • Middle East democracy • Middle Eastern democracy • Military Dictatorship • Mohamed Bouazizi • Mohamed Morsi • Morsi • Muammar Gaddafi • Mubarak • Muslim Brotherhood • nation state • Nidaa Tounes • No-fly zone • pan-Arabism • Political culture • Political History • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Protest • Proxy war • Public sphere • Qaddafi • ratification • Rebellion • Regime • regime change • Right of revolution • rise of ISIS • Saddam Hussein • Salafi movement • Saudi Arabia • Secularism • Self-determination • Shadi Hamid • Sharia • Shia • Social Justice • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Standpoint (magazine) • State (polity) • Steven Cook • Subsidy • Sunni • Syrian Civil War • Syrian nationalism • Syrian opposition • syrians • Tahir square • terrorism • The Other Hand • Tunisia • Tunisian Revolution • Two Treatises of Government • Unemployment • What Happened
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20144-7 / 0691201447
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20144-3 / 9780691201443