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After the Arab spring [Book] : how the Islamists hijacked the Middle East revolts / John R. Bradley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: v, 247 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780230338197
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.054 23
Other classification:
  • 956.054
Summary: "When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 956.054 BAR-A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 47586
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Includes index.

"When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking"-- Provided by publisher.

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