Arab Spring : Reflections on Political Changes in the Arab World and its Future

Contents: Introduction. I: Arab Spring in Maghreb: 1. Popular Uprising in North Africa: Radical Change, Gradual Adaptation and the Challenge to Authoritarianism/Azzedine Layachi. 2. Three Versions of the Arab Spring in North Africa: Protest and Reform in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia/Larbi Sadiki and Youcef Bouandel. 3. Arab Spring in Egypt: Causes and Implications/Ahmad Mohamed Ahmad Abdel Rahman. 4. Turmoil in Libya: Internal Dynamics and External Linkages/A.K. Pasha. II: Arab Spring in Mashreq and Gulf: 5. Arab Spring: Saudi Exceptionalism?/Gulshan Dietl. 6. Syrian Uprising: March Towards Further Instability/Prasanta Kumar Pradhan. 7. Bahrain Crisis and Iran-Saudi Arabia Contestation/M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi. III: Social Media and Arab Spring : 8. Social Media and Arab Spring/Sashi Kumar. 9. New Media and Arab Spring/Pallav Kumar. IV: Islam and Arab Spring: 10. Turkish Faith-Based Civil Society s Transformative Influence on Islamism as an Inspiration to the Middle East/Ihsan Yilmaz. 11. Islamism and Democracy: Between Tactical and Pragmatic Imperatives and Doctrinal Inflexibility/Shajahan Madampat. 12. Contesting Visions of the Nation-State: Past and Present in the Making of Egypt/Mohammed Moussa. 13. Political Theology of Morsi s State (2012-2013) in Egypt/M.H. Ilias. 14. Arab Spring and the Changing Dynamics of Political Islam in Egypt/Fazzur Rahman. V: Arab Spring: Global Responses and Regional Implications: 15. American Response to the Arab Spring: Foreign Policy in Quandary/Chintamani Mahapatra and Obja Borah Hazarika. 16. China and the Arab Spring: Perception and Policy Responses/Srikanth Kondapalli. 17. Persian Gulf and the Arab Spring: Implications for India/Monish Tourangbam. 18. The Israeli Dilemma: Winds of Change or More of the Same?/Mushtaq Hussain. 19. Reading of the Arab Spring: Implications for Palestine/Abdulkhalek Al-Zamli. Index. The book, containing 19 scholarly papers grouped into five theme parts, broadly deals with social-political forces, ideas, discourses and events that have shaped the emergence of Arab Spring and attempts to delineate its broad meanings and contours. It examines the contentious issue of relationship between Islamism, nation-state and democracy in the context of Arab world and discusses the strengths, weaknesses, limitations and prospects of Arab Spring for democratic transformation of Arab societies. In addition, the book also analyzes the role of major international powers as well as regional implications of Arab Spring. (jacket). …