The Arab world upended : revolution and its aftermath in Tunisia and Egypt / David B. Ottaway.

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Ottaway, David [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781626376311
162637631X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Arab world upended.DDC classification:

962.05/6 23

LOC classification:

DT107.88 .O88 2017

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Contents:

Western and Arab theories of revolution -- Arab revolutions and counterrevolutions -- Political causes of the 2011 uprisings -- Economic and social causes of the 2011 uprisings -- Fall of the Ancien regime -- From dual sovereignty to restoration -- Fall of the Pharoah -- The Thermidorian reaction -- Dual sovereignty -- The restoration -- Counterrevolution from abroad -- Postrevolution prospects -- Revolutions compared.

Summary: After the autocratic regimes in the seemingly unassailable police states of Tunisia and Egypt suddenly collapsed in 2011, the Islamic parties that took over quickly succumbed in turn to further massive uprisings, this time by disaffected secularists and, in the case of Egypt, with the support of the army. What explains this? And why do the current regimes in both countries remain so fragile? Addressing these questions, drawing on years of first-hand, in-depth research, David Ottaway explores the causes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the reasons for their radically differing outcomes,

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After the autocratic regimes in the seemingly unassailable police states of Tunisia and Egypt suddenly collapsed in 2011, the Islamic parties that took over quickly succumbed in turn to further massive uprisings, this time by disaffected secularists and, in the case of Egypt, with the support of the army. What explains this? And why do the current regimes in both countries remain so fragile? Addressing these questions, drawing on years of first-hand, in-depth research, David Ottaway explores the causes of the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the reasons for their radically differing outcomes,