LEADER 04102nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910463523403321 005 20211008235741.0 010 $a0-8122-0841-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208412 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060371 035 $a(OCoLC)859160548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748446 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000949500 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11630176 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000949500 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11002802 035 $a(PQKB)11496825 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442069 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24671 035 $a(DE-B1597)449706 035 $a(OCoLC)979834088 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208412 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442069 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748446 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682505 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060371 100 $a20130403d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRoots of the Arab Spring$b[electronic resource] $econtested authority and political change in the Middle East /$fDafna Hochman Rand 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (184 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51223-X 311 0 $a0-8122-4530-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Authority in Flux: Three Drivers of Change in the Middle East and North Africa --$tChapter 1. The Demand for Free Expression and the Contested Public Sphere --$tChapter 2. De-democratizing through the Rule of Law --$tChapter 3. New Sons and Stalled Reforms --$tChapter 4. The Drivers of Change and the U.S. Response --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn December 2010, the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor set off a wave of protests that have been termed the "Arab Spring." These protests upended the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen while unsettling numerous other regimes throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Dafna Hochman Rand was a senior policy planner in the U.S. State Department as the uprisings unfolded. In Roots of the Arab Spring, she gives one of the first accounts of the systemic underlying forces that gave birth to the Arab Spring. Drawing on three years of field research conducted before the protests, Rand shows how experts overlooked signs that political change was stirring in the region and overestimated the regimes' strategic capabilities to manage these changes. She argues that the Arab Spring was fifteen years in the making, gradually inflamed by growing popular demand-and expectation-for free expression, by top-down restrictions on citizens' political rights, and by the failure of the region's autocrats to follow through on liberalizing reforms they had promised more than a decade earlier. An incisive account of events whose ramifications are still unfolding, Roots of the Arab Spring captures the tectonic shifts in the region that led to the first major political upheaval of the twenty-first century. 606 $aArab Spring, 2010- 606 $aAuthoritarianism$zArab countries$y21st century 606 $aAuthoritarianism$zArab countries$y20th century 606 $aProtest movements$zArab countries$y20th century 606 $aProtest movements$zArab countries$y21st century 607 $aArab countries$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aArab countries$xPolitics and government$y21st century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArab Spring, 2010- 615 0$aAuthoritarianism 615 0$aAuthoritarianism 615 0$aProtest movements 615 0$aProtest movements 676 $a909/.097492708312 700 $aRand$b Dafna Hochman$f1977-$01041577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463523403321 996 $aRoots of the Arab Spring$92465212 997 $aUNINA