Contentious Politics In The Middle East: Popular Resistance And Marginalized Activism Beyond The Arab Uprisings (Middle East Today) - 9781137537201

While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

• | Author: Fawaz A. Gerges
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 13, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 578 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1137537205
• | ISBN-13: 9781137537201