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The World Community and the Arab Spring

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Editors:
  1. Cenap Çakmak

    1. Independent Researcher, Eskişehir, Turkey

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  2. Ali Onur Özçelik

    1. Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

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  • Combines theory and case studies to shed light on how the international community responds to a crisis of global concerns

  • Fills a gap in the literature by answering the question of how the international community has responded to the Arab Spring

  • Provides in-depth analysis of the policies followed by international organizations, great powers, and regional powers

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Maintaining Relevance Between the Study of International Society and the Arab Spring

    • Cenap Çakmak, Ali Onur Özçelik
    Pages 1-15

  3. The United Nations and the Arab Spring

    • Cenap Çakmak
    Pages 17-39

  4. A Litmus Test for Europe: EU Mediterranean Politics After the Arab Spring

    • Ali Onur Özçelik
    Pages 41-62

  5. The Arab Spring and Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Africa

    • Müge Dalar
    Pages 63-81

  6. Cultural Heritage and the Arab Spring: A Review of (Inter)National Efforts to Safeguard Heritage Under Fire

    • Nour A. Munawar
    Pages 83-115

  7. How the Gulf Cooperation Council Responded to the Arab Spring

    • Gülşah Neslihan Akkaya
    Pages 117-139

  8. The United States and the Arab Spring: A Mixed Approach of Cautious Optimism and Indifference

    • Cenap Çakmak
    Pages 141-159

  9. Russia and the Arab Spring: A Counter-revolutionary Power in the MENA Region

    • Vanda Amaro Dias, Maria Raquel Freire
    Pages 161-183

  10. Six Years After the Arab Spring: China’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa

    • Mordechai Chaziza
    Pages 185-204

  11. French Foreign Policy in Libya and Syria (2003–2017): Strategic Adaptability in Quickly Changing Environments

    • Julien Theron
    Pages 205-231

  12. The Arab Spring and Response from India

    • Abdul Gaffar
    Pages 233-247

  13. Turkey and the Arab Spring

    • Yoko Nakamura
    Pages 249-274

  14. Iran’s Unscrupulous Role in the Arab Spring: A March Back to Authoritarianism?

    • Shams uz Zaman
    Pages 275-299

  15. An Israeli Perspective on the Popular Uprisings in the Arab Middle East

    • Yusri Hazran
    Pages 301-323

  16. The Arab Spring and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG): Analogies with the Arab State Crisis?

    • Jason E. Strakes
    Pages 325-354

  17. Defending the Heartland: Saudi Arabia’s Response to the Arab Spring

    • James Bowden
    Pages 355-373

  18. Foreign Policy by Stealth: Kuwait and the Arab Spring

    • James Bowden
    Pages 375-394

  19. The UAE and the Arab Spring: Rethinking Foreign Policy

    • William Guéraiche
    Pages 395-407

  20. Conclusion

    • Cenap Çakmak, Ali Onur Özçelik
    Pages 409-413
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About this book

This edited volume offers an understanding of how the international community, as a collection of significant actors including major states and intergovernmental institutions, has responded to the important political and social development of the Arab Spring. Contributors analyze the response by international organizations (UN, EU, NATO), big powers (US, Russia, China, UK), regional powers (Turkey, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia) and small powers (Kuwait, Qatar). The book thus makes a sound contribution to the existing literature on the Arab Spring in form of foreign policy analysis and provides an overview of the current shape and outlook of global politics.

Reviews

“A well-chosen collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays about the ways key state and non-state actors responded to the Arab Spring. The English School perspective highlights the role of international society and significance of shared norms and practices.” (Yale H. Ferguson, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Global and International Affairs, Rutgers University, USA)

“This timely and impressive volume expands our understanding of them by tackling a hitherto under-studied topic. It brings together a number of specialist contributors to analyse and evaluate the ways in which global and regional inter-governmental organisations, major world powers and regional states (both Arab and non-Arab) reacted to and tried to deal with the events of 2011 and their aftermath. The work is impressive in its comprehensiveness and depth. It offers detailed empirical analysis of the various cases, drawing on insights from international law, foreign policy analysis and international relations theory to fill an important gap in the literature on the Arab Spring. It will also be an indispensable tool for those who seek draw lessons for future policy towards similar ruptures in international society.” (Katerina Dalacoura, International Relations, London School of Economics, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Independent Researcher, Eskişehir, Turkey

    Cenap Çakmak

  • Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

    Ali Onur Özçelik

About the editors

Cenap Cakmak is Professor of International Law and Politics at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey, and Senior Researcher at Wise Men Center for Strategic Research, Turkey.


Ali Onur Özçelik is Assistant Professor at Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Turkey.



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