The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power

200 Pages·2015·5.762 MB·English

by  Kienle Eberhard, Eberhard Kienle, Nadine Sika

Eberhard Kienle is Research Professor at the Centre national de la
recherche scientifique (CNRS) and teaches politics at the Institut
d’e´tudes politiques (IEP) de Grenoble and Sciences-Po Paris. He is
currentlytheheadoftheInstitutfranc¸aisduProche-Orient(Ifpo)in
Beirut.HispublicationsincludeBa’thversusBa’th:TheConflictbetween
Syria and Iraq, 1968–1989 (I.B.Tauris, 1990); A Grand Delusion:
Democracy and Economic Reform in Egypt (I.B.Tauris, 2001) and
Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion: Political Change North and
South of the Mediterranean (2009).
NadineSikaisHumboldtFoundationVisitingFellowattheStiftung
WissenschaftundPolitikinBerlin(SWP)aswellasassistantprofessor
of Comparative Politics at the American University in Cairo (AUC).
The author of articles in journals such as the British Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies, she is currently writing a book on youth activism and
contentious politics in Egypt.
‘Thisexcellentcollectionstandsoutfromthemanyrecentbookson
the subject in its broad historical and comparative sweep and
theoretical literacy. By analysing the current situation in these
broader perspectives, the constituent papers signal possible avenues
of liberating developments from the present crises and dilemmas in
most of the region.’
Sami Zubaida, Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology,
Birkbeck, University of London
‘These 10 essays chart and analyse events in the Middle East during
and after the Arab revolutions, and give new and stimulating
interpretationsofthedifferentreactionsofthevariousregimes,both
at the time and subsequently. The history and processes of state
formation, and the degree and nature of their integration into the
worldeconomy,emergeasthemostimportantfactorsinfluencingthe
trajectories followed by Middle Eastern states since 2011.’
Professor Peter Sluglett, Director of the Middle East
Institute, National University of Singapore
‘EberhardKienle and NadineSika have collected a fascinatingseries
ofessaysontheArabuprisingsof2011.Asagroup,theessaysexplore
diverse issues including the survival of monarchies and a variety of
provocative comparisons. Two distinct essays discuss the survival of
the monarchies. John Chalcraft provides a trenchant and lengthy
critique of earlier, partial explanations and Roger Heacock explores
some of the commonalities between the Arab Spring and the 1848
Springtime of Peoples. The essays by editors Kienle and Sika are
especially useful and worth buying the book for. They are clear and
thoughtful guides to the events of the last four years and the
problems that continue to disturb politics in the region.’
Ellis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus of Political Science,
University of Washington
THE ARAB
UPRISINGS
Transforming and Challenging State Power
Edited by
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BERHARD IENLE AND ADINE IKA
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CONTENTS
Contributors ix
1. Introduction 1
2. Comparing Incomparables: The Spring of Peoples
and the Fall of States – 1848 and 2011 9
Roger Heacock
3. Revisiting the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings:
Algeria and Yemen Compared 38
Fred H. Lawson
4. What Difference Does Contestation Make? Agency and
its Limits in the Arab Uprisings 65
John Chalcraft
5. The Gulf Monarchies: State-building, Legitimacy and
Social Order 95
Thomas Demmelhuber
6. The Resilience of Arab Monarchies and the
‘Arab Spring’: A Comparative Approach 114
Alain Dieckhoff
7. Popular Contestation, Regime Transformation and
State Formation 131
Eberhard Kienle
viii THE ARABUPRISINGS
8. Arab States, Regime Change and Social Contestation
Compared: The Cases of Egypt and Syria 158
Nadine Sika
Index 176
CONTRIBUTORS
John Chalcraft is Associate Professor of History and Politics of
Empire/Imperialism in the Department of Government at the
London School of Economics.
Thomas Demmelhuber is Associate Professor of Politics at the
University of Hildesheim, Germany.
Alain Dieckhoff is Senior Researcher at the Centre national de la
recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris and head of the Center for
International Studies (CERI), Sciences Po, Paris.
RogerHeacockisProfessorofHistoryattheIbrahimAbu-Lughod
Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine.
Fred H. Lawson is Professor of Government at Mills College,
California.