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100 1 _aBradley, John R.,
_d1970-
245 1 0 _aAfter the Arab spring :
_bhow the Islamists hijacked the Middle East revolts /
_cJohn R. Bradley.
260 _aNew York City :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2012.
300 _av, 247 p. ;
_c25 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _a"When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"--
650 0 _aRevolutions
_zMiddle East.
650 0 _aIslam and politics
_zMiddle East.
650 0 _aDemocratization
_zMiddle East.
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
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651 0 _aMiddle East
_xPolitics and government
_y21st century.
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