The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists

Stephen J. King (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
13 February 2020
Pages
338
ISBN
9781108477413

The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists

Stephen J. King (Georgetown University, Washington DC)

In 2011, the world watched as dictators across the Arab world were toppled from power. In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, ordinary Arab citizens mobilized across the region during the Arab Spring to reinvent the autocratic Arab world into one characterized by democracy, dignity, socioeconomic justice, and inviolable human rights. This unique comparative analysis of countries before, during and after the Arab Spring seeks to explain the divergent outcomes, disappointing and even harrowing results of efforts to overcome democratic consolidation challenges, from the tentative democracy in Tunisia to the emergence of the Islamic State, and civil war and authoritarian retrenchment everywhere else. Tracing the period of the Arab Spring from its background in long-term challenges to autocratic regimes, to the mass uprisings, authoritarian breakdown, and the future projections and requirements for a democratizing conclusion, Stephen J. King establishes a broad but focused history which refines the leading theory of democratization in comparative politics, and realigns the narrative of Arab Spring history by bringing its differing results to the fore.

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