Winners and Losers in the Arab Spring: Profiles in Chaos [Paperback]

Preface: Two Images  Introduction  I. Abetting the Chaos: Western Losers  1. Presidential Blunders: Bush (and Blair), Obama, Trump  2. Hapless Political Philosophers, Counterproductive Social Media  3. Interim Summary: US Post-Cold War Intervention and Arab Collapse  II. Reaping the Benefits: Local Winners  4. Qasem Soleimani and the Quds Force  5. Putin: Russia Returns to the Middle East  6. Netanyahu Leverages Arab Chaos  7. Erdogan and the Kurds: the Jury is Still Out  8. The Arab Monarchies and MbSs Reformist Mayhem  III. Conclusion: Understanding a Global Grand-Strategic Event  Timeline of Arab Chaos through December 2018

This book looks at the way primarily external actors influenced and were influenced by the revolutionary chaos that erupted in the Arab Middle East in 2011. The Arab revolutions radically altered the Middle East dynamic and particularly the strategic standing of key actors, both locally and globally.

The winners are leaders with strategic understanding of the region and a scheme for exploiting the chaosPutin, Netanyahu and Irans Qasem Soleimanialong with, strikingly, the very institution of Arab monarchy. The losers are the Arab autocrats who were deposed in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. The Palestinians, seemingly bypassed by the dynamic of Arab revolution, are also losers. So are the American presidentsBush 43 and Obamawhose disastrous strategic decision-making catalyzed Arab state fragmentation and opened the gates of the Levant to Irans drive for regional hegemony. Western democratic society suffered toofrom waves of Islamist terrorism and the effects of Muslim migration generated at least in part by Arab chaos. Only in the case of two leaders was the jury still out by 2019. The effects of the high-risk polilÓW