False dawn
Subtitle: protest, democracy, and violence in the new Middle East
By: Steven A. Cook
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780190611415
Subjects: Politics and government; Arab Spring, 2010-; History
Description: In False Dawn, noted Middle East regional expert Steven Cook offers a sweeping narrative account of the past five years, moving from Turkey to Tunisia to Yemen to Iraq to Egypt and beyond, ultimately presenting a powerful theoretical analysis of why the Arab Spring failed.
Notes: "A Council on Foreign Relations Book."
Table of contents: title: Prologue : we are now free; title: Introduction : springtime; title: Freedom's ride; title: Bread! Freedom! Social justice!; title: Unraveling; title: What went wrong?; title: Getting the Middle East right; title: Freedom interrupted.