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Armies And Insurgencies In The Arab Spring

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Publication Year: 2016 gtin13: 9780812248548 Format: Hardcover ISBN: 9780812248548 Author: Albrecht, Holger (Editor) Book Title: Armies And Insurgencies In The Arab Spring Item Weight: 1.4 lbs Language: English Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Armies And Insurgencies In The Arab Spring ISBN13: 9780812248548 ISBN10: 0812248546 Author: Albrecht, Holger (Editor), Croissant, Aurel (Editor), Lawson, Fred H. (Editor) Description: Following The Popular Uprisings That Swept Across The Arab World Beginning In 2010, Armed Forces Remained Pivotal Actors In Politics Throughout The Region As Demonstrators Started To Challenge Entrenched Autocratic Rulers In Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, And Manama, The Militaries Stormed Back Into The Limelight And Largely Determined Whether Any Given Ruler Survived The Protests In Tunisia, Egypt, And Yemen, Senior Officers Pulled Away From Their Presidents, While In Algeria, Bahrain, And Syria, They Did Not More Important, Military Officers Took Command In Shaping The New Order And Conflict Trajectories Throughout That Region Armies And Insurgencies In The Arab Spring Explores The Central Problems Surrounding The Role Of Armed Forces In The Contemporary Arab World How And Why Do Military Apparatuses Actively Intervene In Politics? What Explains The Fact That In Some Countries, Military Officers And Rank-And-File Take Steps To Defend An Incumbent, While In Others They Defect And Refrain From Suppressing Popular Protest? What Are The Institutional Legacies Of The Military's Engagement During, And In The Immediate Aftermath Of, Mass Uprisings? Focusing On These Questions, Editors Holger Albrecht, Aurel Croissant, And Fred H Lawson Have Organized Armies And Insurgencies In The Arab Spring Into Three Sections The First Employs Case Studies To Make Comparisons Within And Between Regions; The Second Examines Military Engagements In The Arab Uprisings In Yemen, Bahrain, And Syria; And The Third Looks At Political Developments Following The Cresting Of The Protest Wave In Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, And The Gulf The Collection Promotes Better Understanding Not Only Of The Particular History Of Military Engagement In The Arab Spring But Also Of Significant Aspects Of The Transformation Of Political-Military Relations In Other Regions Of The Contemporary World Contributors: Holger Albrecht, Risa A Brooks, Cherine Chams El-Dine, Virginie Collombier, Aurel Croissant, Philippe Droz-Vincent, Kevin Koehler, Fred H Lawson, Shana Marshall, Dorothy Ohl, David Pion-Berlin, Tobias Selge, Robert Springborg Binding: Hardcover, Hardcover Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Publication Date: 2016-12-02 Weight: 1.4 lbs Dimensions: 1.4'' H x 9.1'' L x 6.3'' W Number of Pages: 320 Language: English

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