: How the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts
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\ John R. Bradley
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New York City
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: Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2012
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v, 247 p
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"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"--
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Islam & politics
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اسلام و سیاست
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-- Middle East
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-- خاورمیانه
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Revolutions -- Middle East
Democratization-- Middle East
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General
Middle East, Politics and government, 21st century