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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787875403321

Autore

Cohen Ronen A.

Titolo

Upheavals in the Middle East : the theory and practice of the revolution / / Ronen A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-7666-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

321.0940956

Soggetti

Revolutions - Middle East

Revolutions - Arab countries

Government, Resistance to - Middle East

Government, Resistance to - Arab countries

Islamic fundamentalism - Political aspects - Middle East

Islamic fundamentalism - Political aspects - Arab countries

Insurgency - Middle East

Insurgency - Arab countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Theoritical approaches -- Part II. Case studies analysis, the Middle East states, opposition groups, underground and political movements -- Part III. Case studies analysis, anti-state paradigm in the terror organizations' agenda/substate fundamental organizations.

Sommario/riassunto

Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution offers theoretical discussion of revolutionary events and applies the resulting framework to a number of case studies from the Middle East. It deals with seventeen cases study 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.