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Author:   Saïd Amir Arjomand
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781438454887

ISBN 10:   1438454880
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   02 January 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Illustrations Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies Introduction Said Amir Arjomand 1. The Arab Revolution 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative Perspective Said Amir Arjomand 2. Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011 Jack A. Goldstone 3. Is Democracy a Mirage? The Arab Awakening in Comparative Perspective Roberto Toscano 4. Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World Perspective Kevan Harris 5. A Place for Revolution: Urban Space in the Arab Spring Can Ersoy 6. Quest for the Dawla Madania (Civic State): Visions of Egyptian Statehood Dalia E. Wahdan 7. The First Year of the Tunisian Revolution Jean-Pierre Filiu 8. Why Burkina's Spring Fizzled Away: Paradoxes of a Semiauthoritarian Regime Mathieu Hilgers and Augustin Loada 9. Civil Society in a Transcultural Comparison: Eastern Europe and the MENA Region Karim Fathi and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski 10. The 2017 Problem: A Next Revolutionary Situation Dmitry Ivanov Contributors Index

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Said Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, both also published by SUNY Press.

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