Revisiting the Arab Uprisings The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment [Paperback]

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the countries whose regimes were toppled in 2011, as if they were merely footnotes to a narrative that naturally led from an Arab Spring to an Arab Winter .
This volume aims at rehabilitating those transitions, by considering them as expressions of a revolutionary moment whose outcome was never pre-determined, but depended on the choices of a large range of actors. It brings together leading scholars of Arab politics to adopt a comparative approach to a few crucial aspects of those transitions: constitutional debates, the question of transitional justice, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the role of specific actors, both domestic and international.

Contents

Introduction Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment - St?phane Lacroix and Jean-Pierre Filiu
Part 1
The Dynamics of Inclusion and Polarization
Chapter 1 Toward A 'Democracy with Democrats' in Tunisia: Mutual Accommodation Between Islamic and Secular Activists - Alfred Stepan
Chapter 2 Constituting Constitutionalism: Lessons from the Arab World - Nathan Brown

Part 2
Security Providers or Military Spoilers?
Chapter 3 Bullets Beat Ballots: The Arab Uprisings and Civil-Military Relations in Egypt - Omar Ashour
Chapter 4 Militaries and Democracies in the Middle East: Too Much and Too Little - Steven Cook
Chapter 5 Modern Mamlouks and Arab Counter-Revolution - Jean-Pierre Filiu

Part 3
Civil Society, the Media, International Actors
Chapter 6 Trashing Transitions: The Role of Arab Media After the Uprisings - Marc Lynch
Chapter 7 Not Ready for Democracy: Modernization, Pluralism and the Arab Spring - Tarek Masoud
Chapter 8 International Assistance to Arab Spring Transitions - Zaid al-Aliló¯