The Age of Counter-Revolution(English, Hardcover, Allinson Jamie)

Know about the book -

The Age of Counter-Revolution(English, Hardcover, Allinson Jamie) is written by Allinson Jamie and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108484077 (ISBN 10) and 9781108484077 (ISBN 13).

The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, this book shows how these profoundly revolutionary situations were overturned by counter-revolutions. Placing the fate of the Arab uprisings in a global context, Allinson reveals how counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to the decade of global protest that followed them, this innovative work demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered it near impossible to implement political change without first enacting fundamental social transformation.