Us Hard Power in the Arab World: Resistance, the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror

ISBN-13: 9780367205324 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 192 str.

Layla Saleh

Opis

Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of the US’s presence in the Arab world has reached a crossroads. The book traces the US’s "power of persuasion" in the Arab Middle East from the onset of the War on Terror up to the Arab Spring. Focusing on Syria, it explores the limits of a US "smart power" amid the emergence of a growing indigenous "soft power" whose ire is directed not only at Assad’s regime, but also at the violence perpetrated or enabled by the international community, headed by the US.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Narrating a "Smart" US into the Arab World 2. Outside-in Arab Political Change 3. "Hardening" Soft Power: The State of Exception 4. War on Terror Tales 5. There and Back Again: Enter the Arab Spring 6. Soft Power in the Syrian Revolution Silmiyyah 7. Conclusion: The Thawrah in the World

O autorze

Layla Saleh is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Qatar University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, America.