dc.description | The "Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East" Summary Report details the CIRS research initiative on “The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East" to scrutinize the ways in which domestic political arrangements in the Middle East are evolving, and how the authoritarian bargains are being challenged. This project brings together a number of distinguished scholars to examine a variety of relevant topics and to contribute original chapters to the CIRS book titled, Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East.
Some of the areas addressed include: the need for modifying theoretical paradigms explaining authoritarian perseverance in the Middle East; the role of key actors and institutions (the role of the military, the bureaucracy, the ruling party, and opposition figures); evolving sources of political legitimacy; the dynamics of the domestic and international political economy, and the impact of the failure (or the efforts) to reform domestic economies; the relevance or not of Political Islam and the role of Islamism in the opposition; and the role of traditional media, new media, and social media. | en |
dc.description.tableOfContents | 1. Introduction
Mehran Kamrava, CIRS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Part I. Contextualizing the Arab Spring
2. The Rise and Fall of Ruling Bargains in the Middle East
Mehran Kamrava, CIRS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
3. Taking Power, Re-Making Power: The Threads of the Cultures of Resistance behind the Arab Spring John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara
4. The Arab State and Social Contestation Nadine Sika, American University in Cairo
5. Islamist Movements and the Arab Spring Abdullah Al-Arian, Wayne State University
6. Political Party Development Before and After the Arab Spring Shadi Hamid, Brookings, Doha Center
7. Revolution and Constitution in the Arab World, 2011-12 Saïd Amir Arjomand, The Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies
Part II. Case Studies
8. Renegotiating Iran’s Post-Revolutionary Social Contract: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in the Islamic Republic
Nader Hashemi, Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
9. Challenging the Trade Union, Reclaiming the Nation: The Politics of Labor Protest in Egypt, 2006-2011 Marie Duboc, National University of Singapore
10. Microcosm of the Arab Spring: Sociology of Tahrir Square Bahgat Korany, American University in Cairo
11. Protests, Regime Stability, and the History of Authoritarian State Formation in Jordan Ziad Abu-Rish, University of California, Los Angeles
12. The Persian Gulf Monarchies and the Arab Spring Russell E. Lucas, Michigan State University
13. Bahrain’s Fractured Ruling Bargain: Political Mobilization, Regime Responses, and the New Sectarianism Quinn Mecham, Middlebury College
14. Yemen and the Arab Spring
Thomas Juneau, Department of National Defence, Government of Canada
15. The Fragmented State of the Syrian Opposition
Bassam Haddad, George Mason University; and C. Ella Wind, Analyst on the political economy of MENA region
16. Beyond the Civil War in Libya: Toward a New Ruling Bargain Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth College | en |