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ARAB COUNTRIES--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT --- DEMOCRATIZATION--ARAB COUNTRIES

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First came the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire following World War I; then, in the 1950s and '60s, the Nasser-inspired wave of Arab nationalism and socialism. The Arab world's third great political cataclysm of the past 100 years has also brought permanent changes, but not as its activists had hoped : the 2011 uprisings. Their consequences have differed greatly from area to area, splintering the Arab region into four different worlds, The Levant states have disintegrated, possibly irreversibly. The Gulf monarchies have embarked on far-reaching plans of economic and social change to stave off discontent. Egypt has retreated into military authoritarianism and a war on Islamists, threatening its future stability. Only the Maghreb countries, which have started integrating Islamists into their political systems, offer some hope for progress toward democracy. This book is an indispensable analysis of the profound upheavals that have shaken - and continue to transform - Arab and global politics.

ARAB SPRING, 2010 --- -ARAB COUNTRIES--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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Arab countries --- Politics and government --- Arab countries - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Arab countries - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Arab countries

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DEMOCRATIZATION--ARAB COUNTRIES --- DEMOCRACY--ARAB COUNTRIES --- ELECTIONS--ARAB COUNTRIES --- ARAB COUNTRIES--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

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In 2011, a series of anti-government uprisings shook the Middle East and North Africa in what would become known as the Arab Spring. Few could predict that these convulsions, initially hailed in the West as a triumph of democracy, would give way to brutal civil war, the terrors of the Islamic State, and a global refugee crisis. But, as the author shows, the seeds of catastrophe had been sown long before. In this gripping account, he examines the myriad complex causes of the region's profound unraveling, tracing the ideological conflicts of the present to their origins in the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 and beyond. From this investigation emerges a rare view into a land in upheaval through the eyes of six individuals - the matriarch of a dissident Egyptian family; a Libyan Air Force cadet with divided loyalties; a Kurdish physician from a prominent warrior clan; a Syrian university student caught in civil war; an Iraqi activist for women's rights; and an Iraqi day laborer-turned-ISIS fighter. A probing and insightful work of reportage, this book offers a penetrating portrait of the contemporary Arab world and brings the stunning realities of an unprecedented geopolitical tragedy into crystalline focus.

ARAB SPRING, 2010 --- -ARAB COUNTRIES--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT --- I.S. (ORGANIZATION) --- IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011