| Description |
v, 247 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
An Arab Spring? -- The death of Tunisia's secularism -- Egypt's Islamist future -- The Wahhabi counterrevolution -- The Shia axis -- Lessons from Southeast Asia -- What next? |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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Middle East. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Revolutions -- Middle East.
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Revolutions. |
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Islam and politics -- Middle East.
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Islam and politics. |
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Democratization -- Middle East.
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Democratization. |
| ISBN |
9780230338197 hardback |
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0230338194 hardback |
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