Arab Spring and Its Legacies

This edited volume examines the impact of the protest movements that shook West Asia and North Africa in the early 2010s.

The essays in this edited volume seek to understand the regional and international ramifications of the wave of protest demonstrations that swept across West Asia and North Africa in the early 2010s, both on the ground and online. Dissatisfaction with political repression and corruption, economic difficulties and inequities, and a desire for freedom and democracy all played a role in the Arab Spring uprisings. It deposed long-standing dictatorships, ushering in a period of insecurity and instability that would have long-term consequences for the region's political economy and international relations. Although the protests have ended, the legacy of that turbulent era will live on, most notably in the acceleration of regional change and transformation.

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Mujib Alam, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Sujata Ashwarya, Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

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About the Contributors

Introduction

Mujib Alam and Sujata Ashwarya

1. After Summer May Come the Fall: The Enduring Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East

Kingshuk Chatterjee

2 Democratic Upsurge in the Arab World and India

Priyamvada A. Sawant

3 Sectarianism and Instability in Post-Arab Spring West Asia

Mohmad Saleem Sheikh

4 The Syrian Crisis and Turkey's Involvement

Özden Zeynep Oktav

5 The Syrian Crisis and its Implications for India

Sukalpa Chakrabarti

6 Civil War in Syria: Understanding the Chinese Response

Abu Zafar

7 Saudi Arabia After the Arab Spring: The Oil Era and Reforms

Vrushal T. Ghoble

8 Saudi State and the Crisis of Legitimacy

Umar Farooq

9 Public Spaces and the Arab Uprisings: Sites of Contention

Priya Singh

10 Spring in Arabic Literature amid the Turmoil in the Region

Md. Aftab Ahmad

11 Hezbollah and Regional Confrontation: The Arab Spring Context

Sujata Ashwarya and Mohmad Saleem Sheikh

12 Arab Spring and the French Revolution: The Longue Durée of Transformation

Adil Rasheed

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