For every pithy conceptualization of complex events, there are
additional lenses through which to examine them. One of the several
virtues of this book is precisely that it brings different
perspectives to bear on the complexity, diversity, and uncertainty
of recent and current events in the Arab world. The thirteen
authors concentrate on the critical social forces shaping the
region --demography, religion, gender, telecommunication
connectivity, and economic structures --and they are painstakingly
analyzed and evaluated. --from the foreword by Strobe Talbott,
president of the Brookings Institution
The Arab Spring will be remembered as a period of great change
for the Arab states of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.
Facing fundamental transitions in governance, these countries are
also undergoing profound social, cultural, and religious changes.
The European Union and the United States, caught unprepared by the
uprisings, now must address the inescapable challenges of those
changes. How will the West respond to these new realities,
particularly in light of international economic uncertainty, EU
ambivalence toward a "cohesive foreign policy," and declining U.S.
influence abroad? "Arab Society in Revolt" explains and interprets
the societal transformations occurring in the Arab Muslim world,
their ramifications for the West, and possible policy options for
dealing with this new world.
"Arab Society in Revolt" examines areas of change particularly
relevant in the southern Mediterranean: demography and migration,
Islamic revival and democracy, rapidly changing roles of women in
Arab society, the Internet in Arab societies, commercial and social
entrepreneurship as change factors, and the economics of Arab
transitions. The book then looks at those cultural and religious as
well as political and economic factors that have influenced the
Western response, or lack of it, to the Arab Spring as well as the
policy options that remain open.
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