Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State

ISBN-13: 9780231186278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Curtis R. Ryan

Opis

Drawing upon years of fieldwork and unique access to major political figures in Jordan, Curtis Ryan unravels the unusual case of Jordan during the Arab Spring, where the country managed to avoid political upheaval amidst both regional and internal unrest.

Recenzje

Ryan argues that Jordan did have an uprising beginning in 2011, and that fact that it took a different path from some of the other states does not mean that Jordan was exceptional. Jordan is often treated merely as a case of "regime survival", but Ryan unpacks how the regime maneuvered on multiple fronts during its uprising. [Ryan's] expertise as a scholar of both international relations and comparative politics enables him to advance an innovative argument with theoretical import well beyond a case study. Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, CUNY

O autorze

Curtis R. Ryan is professor of political science at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. He is the author of Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah (2002) and Inter-Arab Alliances: Regime Security and Jordanian Foreign Policy (2009).