Arab Spring: Reflections on Political Changes in the Arab World & its Future

The book, containing 19 scholarly papers grouped into five theme parts, broadly deals with social-political forces, ideas, discourses and events that have shaped the emergence of Arab Spring and attempts to delineate its broad meanings and contours. It examines the contentious issue of relationship between Islamism, nation-state and democracy in the context of Arab world and discusses the strengths, weaknesses, limitations and prospects of Arab Spring for democratic transformation of Arab societies. In addition, the book also analyses the role of major international powers as well as regional implications of Arab Spring.