Upheavals in the Middle East

The Theory and Practice of a Revolution

By (author) Ronen A. Cohen

Publication date:

14 November 2016

Length of book:

318 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498550796

Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution engages with some of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East—revolutions and social protests. The book offers theoretical paradigms that suit the Middle East’s conditions—culturally, religiously and historically. It deals with seventeen case studies from a range of Muslim and Arab states and provides a theoretical framework to study other situations all over the world, including cases from the recent Arab Spring. Revolution, as political action, can occur in all societies, but in recent years it has appeared most frequently in the Middle East. Will this trend continue? What makes the Middle Eastern revolution unique and surprising? This book seeks to answer these questions, placing side by side those cases that were successful and those that were doomed to fail.

Part One: Theoretical Approaches
Chapter I: Historical Background – Revolutions in Theories
Chapter II: Essential Components to Revolutionary Evolution and Development –Theoretical Approach
Chapter III: Revolution and Its Intellectuals – The Formation of New and Dynamic Politics
Chapter IV: Fundamentalism and the Emergence of the Traditional Forces
Part Two: Case Studies Analysis—The Middle East States, Opposition Groups, Underground and Political Movements
Part Two: Introduction
Chapter V: Algeria - National Liberation Front – FLN
Chapter VI: Egypt
Chapter VII: Iran
Chapter VIII: Iraq
Chapter IX: Sudan - The Mahdiyyah
Chapter X: Syria
Chapter XI: Turkey
Part Three: Case Studies Analysis—Anti-State Paradigm in Terror Organizations’ Agenda / Sub-State Fundamental Organizations
Chapter XII: Al-Qaeda
Chapter XIII: Black September Organization
Chapter XIV: Hamas
Chapter XV: Taliban
Chapter XVI: Conclusions
Chapter XVII: Epilogue – The Arab Spring

[This book includes a] high quality of...research that offers a new way to look at the Middle Eastern revolutions of the twentieth century and provides valuable insights to understand a region that remains problematic and fascinating like no others.