False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East

by Steven A. Cook

Book Overview

More than half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of violence and renewed state repression. In False Dawn, noted Middle East expert Steven A. Cook looks at the trajectory of events across the region from the initial uprising in Tunisia to the failed coup attempt in Turkey to explain why the Arab Spring uprisings did not succeed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190611413
• ISBN13: 9780190611415
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.5"