The Challenge of Explaining Arab Politics

by Francesco Cavatorta

Studies of the Arab world since the 2011 uprisings have fluctuated between extolling the explanatory power of the democratization paradigm or the validity of the authoritarian resilience framework. It is through these two theoretical lenses that political developments across the region have been largely interpreted. These two paradigms though fail to capture the actual complexity of the changes - or lack thereof - that have characterised the region...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474467075
• ISBN13: 9781474467070
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 180 Pages