TY - BOOK ID - 85498110 TI - The Arab winter PY - 2020 SN - 1108769799 1108850774 1108852351 1108477410 9781108477413 9781108708661 1108708668 9781108769792 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Democratization KW - Civil war KW - Islam and politics KW - Arab Spring, 2010 KW - -Arab Awakening, 2010 KW - -Islam KW - Politics and Islam KW - Political science KW - Civil wars KW - Intra-state war KW - Rebellions KW - Government, Resistance to KW - International law KW - Revolutions KW - War KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - New democracies KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Arab countries KW - Arab world KW - Arabic countries KW - Arabic-speaking states KW - Islamic countries KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government KW - -History KW - Arab Awakening, 2010 KW - -Democratic consolidation KW - Democratization - Arab countries - History - 21st century KW - Civil war - Arab countries - History - 21st century KW - Islam and politics - Arab countries - History - 21st century KW - -Arab countries - Politics and government - 21st century KW - -Arab countries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85498110 AB - In 2011, the world watched as dictators across the Arab world were toppled from power. In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, ordinary Arab citizens mobilized across the region during the Arab Spring to reinvent the autocratic Arab world into one characterized by democracy, dignity, socioeconomic justice, and inviolable human rights. This unique comparative analysis of countries before, during and after the Arab Spring seeks to explain the divergent outcomes, disappointing and even harrowing results of efforts to overcome democratic consolidation challenges, from the tentative democracy in Tunisia to the emergence of the Islamic State, and civil war and authoritarian retrenchment everywhere else. Tracing the period of the Arab Spring from its background in long-term challenges to autocratic regimes, to the mass uprisings, authoritarian breakdown, and the future projections and requirements for a democratizing conclusion, Stephen J. King establishes a broad but focused history which refines the leading theory of democratization in comparative politics, and realigns the narrative of Arab Spring history by bringing its differing results to the fore. ER -