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Title Arab society in revolt : the West's Mediterranean challenge / Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy, editors.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword / Strobe Talbott -- Introduction / Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy -- PART ONE, SOCIETAL CHANGE IN THE ARAB MUSLIM WORLD -- 1. Demography, migration, and revolt in the southern Mediterranean / Philippe Fargues -- 2. Islamic revival and democracy : the case in Tunisia and Egypt / Olivier Roy -- 3. The changing role of women in society / Maria Cristina Paciello and Renata Pepicelli -- 4. Mediterranean Islamic expression and Web 2.0 / Gary R. Bunt -- 5. Modern commercial and social entrepreneurship as a factor of change / Gonzalo Escribano and Alejandro Lorca -- 6. The economics of Arab transitions / Caroline Freund and Carlos A. Primo Braga -- PART TWO, CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY OPTIONS -- 7. Midwife or spectator? U.S. policies toward North Africa in the twenty-first century / Jonathan Laurence -- 8. The power of false analogies : misunderstanding political Islam in a post-totalitarian world / Alan Wolfe -- 9. Societal changes and political responses in Euro-Mediterranean relations / Roberto Aliboni -- 10. The West and the Islamist challenge : toward a common religious market? / Olivier Roy -- 11. The challenge of a changing Arab Islam in future transatlantic relations / Cesare Merlini.
Summary For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are additional lenses throughwhich to examine them. One of the several virtues of this book is precisely that it bringsdifferent perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty of recent andcurrent events in the Arab world. The thirteen authors concentrate on the critical socialforces shaping the region-demography, religion, gender, telecommunication connectivity, and economic structures-and they are painstakingly analyzed and evaluated.-from the foreword by Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution>
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Subject Social change -- Mediterranean Region.
Social change.
Mediterranean Region.
Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Mediterranean Region -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Islam and politics -- Mediterranean Region.
Islam and politics.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Mediterranean Region.
United States.
International relations.
Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations -- United States.
European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Mediterranean Region.
European Union countries.
Mediterranean Region -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Merlini, Cesare.
Roy, Olivier, 1949-
Other Form: Print version: Arab society in revolt. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2012 9780815723967 (DLC) 2012021021 (OCoLC)795759669
ISBN 9780815723974 (electronic book)
0815723970 (electronic book)
9780815723967
0815723962
Standard No. 9786613767295