Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring / / ed. by Aurel Croissant, Holger Albrecht, Fred H. Lawson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Albrecht, Holger,; Brooks, Risa A.,; Collombier, Virginie,; Croissant, Aurel,; Droz-Vincent, Philippe,; El-Dine, Chérine Chams,; Koehler, Kevin,; Lawson, Fred H.,; Marshall, Shana,; Oh, Dorothy,; Pion-Berlin, David,; Selge, Tobias,; Springborg, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Albrecht, Holger,; Croissant, Aurel,; Lawson, Fred H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 2 illus.

Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and Manama, the militaries stormed back into the limelight and largely determined whether any given ruler survived the protests. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, senior officers pulled away from their presidents, while in Algeria, Bahrain, and Syria, they did not. More important, military officers took command in shaping the new order and conflict trajectories throughout that region.Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring explores the central problems surrounding the role of armed forces in the contemporary Arab world. How and why do military apparatuses actively intervene in politics? What explains the fact that in some countries, military officers and rank-and-file take steps to defend an incumbent, while in others they defect and refrain from suppressing popular protest? What are the institutional legacies of the military's engagement during, and in the immediate aftermath of, mass uprisings?Focusing on these questions, editors Holger Albrecht, Aurel Croissant, and Fred H. Lawson have organized Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring into three sections. The first employs case studies to make comparisons within and between regions; the second examines military engagements in the Arab uprisings in Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria; and the third looks at political developments following the cresting of the protest wave in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and the Gulf. The collection promotes better understanding not only of the particular history of military engagement in the Arab Spring but also of significant aspects of the transformation of political-military relations in other regions of the contemporary world.Contributors: Holger Albrecht, Risa A. Brooks, Cherine Chams El-Dine, Virginie Collombier, Aurel Croissant, Philippe Droz-Vincent, Kevin Koehler, Fred H. Lawson, Shana Marshall, Dorothy Ohl, David Pion-Berlin, Tobias Selge, Robert Springborg.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Military Engagement in Mobilizing Societies: The Research Agenda -- PART I. Military Politics and Regime Dynamics -- CHAPTER 1. Military Relations in Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER 2. Officers and Regimes: The Historical Origins of Political-Military Relations in Middle Eastern Republics -- CHAPTER 3. Armed Forces, Internal Security Services, and Popular Contention in the Middle East and North Africa -- CHAPTER 4. A Shifting Role of the Military in Arab Politics? Cross-Regional Perspectives and Implications for the Future of Civil-Military Relations in the Region -- PART II. Military Engagement in the Arab Uprisings -- CHAPTER 5. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Comparing Military (Non-)Cooperation During Authoritarian Regime Crises in the Arab World and Asia -- CHAPTER 6. Cain and Abel in the Land of Sheba: Elite Conflict and the Military in Yemen -- CHAPTER 7. Bahrain's "Cohesive" Military and Regime Stability amid Unrest -- CHAPTER 8. The Syrian Military and the 2011 Uprising -- PART III. Trajectories of Political-Military Relations: Beyond the Arab Spring -- CHAPTER 9. Egypt: From Military Reform to Military Sanctuarization -- CHAPTER 10. The Tunisian Military and Democratic Control of the Armed Forces -- CHAPTER 11. Building an Army to Build the State? The Challenge of Building Security Institutions in Post-Qaddafi Libya -- CHAPTER 12. Military Prestige, Defense-Industrial Production, and the Rise of Gulf Military Activism -- REFERENCES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX