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A Century of Arab Politics: From the Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring

A Century of Arab Politics: From the Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring

by Bruce Maddy - Weitzman (Author)

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From the Great Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule in World War I to the upheavals of the Arab Spring, this text analyzes a century of modern Arab history through the lens of three intertwined notions: the idea of a single Arab nation, the reality of multiple Arab states, and the competition between them over both concrete and symbolic interests. These concepts are presented against the background of Great Power involvement in the region, regional issues such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Iran-Iraq war, and the rise of political Islam.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 292
 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 15 Dec 2015
ISBN 10: 1442236922
ISBN 13: 9781442236929

Media Reviews
Maddy-Weitzman seeks to synthesize the complex history of the contemporary Arab Middle East, focusing on Arab identity and Arab nationalism. Using mostly English-language sources, the author argues that Arab identity evolved out of `Arabism,' or Arabs' consciousness of being distinct from the Ottomans ruling them, before being articulated into a more structured vision of a fractured nation under the dominion of Western powers that needed to reassemble its fragments into an independent union. The constantly thwarted `dream' of unity is seen as the bedrock of `Arab' politics, the book's object. Wars with Israel loom large, as each defeat pointed to the hollowness of the assumed unity project. The emphasis on `Arab' nationalism as an explanatory concept obscures the role played by imperialism (referred to neutrally as `domination'), either in the `weakness' of Arab states the author notes, or Western powers' apparent fear of Arab unity. The book's tone is restrained, the style is clear, and where details are given, some sections are informative. * CHOICE *
[The book] both reprises and provides many helpful views of things one might well have forgotten. * Asian Affairs *
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman's extraordinary book could not have come at a better time. We are now 100 years removed from the Arab Revolt, a defining event in shaping the Middle East regional order of the last century. The book succeeds in helping us digest the vast scope of changes in the region over that time, particularly the rise and fall of Arab nationalism. -- Joel Migdal, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Author Bio
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is a professor in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History, and senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University.