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Roots of the Arab Spring contested authority and political change in the Middle East / by Rand, Dafna Hochman, 1977-

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Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World : Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : struggles for political change in the Arab world : regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring / Hesham Sallam, Lisa Blaydes, and Amr Hamzawy -- Authoritarian narratives and practices in Egypt / Amr Hamzawy -- The people vs. the palace : power and politics in Morocco since 2011 / Samia Errazzouki -- Kuwait's changing landscape : palace projects and the decline of rule by consensus / Farah Al-Nakib -- The decay of family rule in Saudi Arabia / Michael Herb -- Syria's repressive peace / Samer Abboud -- Mobilization without movement : opposition and youth activism in Jordan / Sean Yom -- Cycles of contention in Lebanon / Lina Khatib -- Algeria : anatomy of a revolutionary situation / Thomas Serres -- The nexus of patronage, petrol, and population in Iraq / David Siddhartha Patel -- Understanding the roots, dynamics, and potential of an "impossible" revolution : the prospects and challenges of democratization in Sudan / Khalid Mustafa Medani -- Tunisia : the challenges of party consolidation and the specter of authoritarian reversal / Lindsay J. …”
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Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World : Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : struggles for political change in the Arab world : regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring / Hesham Sallam, Lisa Blaydes, and Amr Hamzawy -- Authoritarian narratives and practices in Egypt / Amr Hamzawy -- The people vs. the palace : power and politics in Morocco since 2011 / Samia Errazzouki -- Kuwait's changing landscape : palace projects and the decline of rule by consensus / Farah Al-Nakib -- The decay of family rule in Saudi Arabia / Michael Herb -- Syria's repressive peace / Samer Abboud -- Mobilization without movement : opposition and youth activism in Jordan / Sean Yom -- Cycles of contention in Lebanon / Lina Khatib -- Algeria : anatomy of a revolutionary situation / Thomas Serres -- The nexus of patronage, petrol, and population in Iraq / David Siddhartha Patel -- Understanding the roots, dynamics, and potential of an "impossible" revolution : the prospects and challenges of democratization in Sudan / Khalid Mustafa Medani -- Tunisia : the challenges of party consolidation and the specter of authoritarian reversal / Lindsay J. …”
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Democracy and reform in the Middle East and Asia : social protest and authoritarian rule after the Arab Spring /

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Euro-Mediterranean relations after the Arab Spring : persistence in times of change /

Table of Contents: “…: renegotiating the authoritarian social contract in Egypt / Cilja Harders -- Blocked middle classes as an engine of change in the Arab world? …”
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Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings : Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters /

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Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings : Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters /

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Social movements, mobilization, and contestation in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Middle East and North Africa beyond classical social movement theory / Joel Beinin and Frédéric Vairel -- Protesting in authoritarian situations : Egypt and Morocco in comparative perspective / Frédéric Vairel -- Egyptian leftist intellectuals' activism from the margins : overcoming the mobilization/demobilization dichotomy / Marie Duboc -- Leaving Islamic activism behind : ambiguous disengagement in Saudi Arabia / Pascal Menoret -- Hizbullah's women : internal transformation in a social movement and militia / Anne Marie Baylouny -- Three decades of human rights activism in the Middle East and North Africa : an ambiguous balance sheet / Joe Stork -- Unemployed Moroccan university graduates and strategies for 'apolitical' mobilization / Montserrat Emperador Badimon -- Presence in silence : feminist and democratic implications of the Saturday vigils in Turkey / Zeynep Gülru Göker -- Mobilizations for Western Thrace and Cyprus in contemporary Turkey : From the far right to the lexicon of human rights / Jeanne Hersant -- Becoming revolutionary in Tunisia, 2007-2011 / Amin Allal -- A workers' social movement on the margin of the global neoliberal order, Egypt 2004-2012 / Joel Beinin and Marie Duboc -- Dynamics of the Yemeni revolution : contextualizing mobilizations / Laurent Bonnefoy and Marine Poirier -- "Oh Buthaina, oh Shaban--the Hawrani is not hungry, we want freedom!" …”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011 -- Types of Authoritarian Regimes -- The Monarchies -- The Personalist Regimes -- The Quiet Regimes -- Beyond the Uprisings: Trajectories of Peaceful and Violent Change -- References…”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011 -- Types of Authoritarian Regimes -- The Monarchies -- The Personalist Regimes -- The Quiet Regimes -- Beyond the Uprisings: Trajectories of Peaceful and Violent Change -- References…”
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