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The Arab Winter - A Tragedy (Hardcover)
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The Arab Winter - A Tragedy (Hardcover)
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Why the conventional
wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to
end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the
Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed
dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The
Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was
nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable
one. Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for
the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking
peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to
achieve self-determination. Focusing on the Egyptian revolution and
counterrevolution, the Syrian civil war, the rise and fall of ISIS
in Syria and Iraq, and the Tunisian struggle toward Islamic
constitutionalism, Feldman provides an original account of the
political consequences of the Arab Spring, including the
reaffirmation of pan-Arab identity, the devastation of Arab
nationalisms, and the death of political Islam with the collapse of
ISIS. He also challenges commentators who say that the Arab Spring
was never truly transformative, that Arab popular
self-determination was a mirage, and even that Arabs or Muslims are
less capable of democracy than other peoples. Above all, The Arab
Winter shows that we must not let the tragic outcome of the Arab
Spring disguise its inherent human worth. People whose political
lives had been determined from the outside tried, and for a time
succeeded, in making politics for themselves. That this did not
result in constitutional democracy or a better life for most of
those affected doesn't mean the effort didn't matter. To the
contrary, it matters for history-and it matters for the future.
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