The Egyptian uprising. The Syrian civil war. The Arab Spring Article Collection - A topical resource from Routledge. Since late 2010 much of the world's attention has been focused on events as they have developed across the Arab world - a wave of demonstrations, protests and revolutions that in its earliest phase came to be known as the Arab Spring.
The present collection of academic articles and analysis represents a selection of the early scholarly responses to the events of the Arab Spring. Content has been selected from across our Area Studies and Politics and International Relations portfolios. Click on the images below to explore the content. We have also selected a number of books relevant to the Arab Spring, including titles from the topical Contemporary Middle East Series.
Click here to be taken to the Arab Spring books page. Do you already have institutional access? Did you know that you might already have access to the full content of the journals included in this collection? Sign up for E-updates Alerting services. The Arab Spring - Related Books and Journals - Routledge Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies. The Politics of Resistance and the Arab Uprisings - 02 - 2012. Prelude to Revolution: how Arab republics tried, and failed, to turn themselves into monarchies: LMEI Event: SOAS.
Le Printemps Arabe. School of International Relations. Constitutional Theory This project explores the nature of constitutional theory the 21st century.
It addresses the question of whether or not the rule of law is an adequate framework by which to understand the intersection of law, politics, and economics in the current world order and how constitutional theory can contribute to a better understanding of law in domestic and global contexts. The Global Rule of Law The project began with a workshop on The Global Rule of Law held on 22-23 June 2011 at the University of St Andrews.
The workshop was launched with an 600th lecture series: Justice Richard Goldstone . Call It What You Will. If only Mohamad Bouaziz could see where his ashes have spread.
The self-immolation of a lowly Tunisian worker has led to furious rhetoric in the largest square of the Arab world, his flames have rekindled the agency of an entire generation. Whatever the resounding effect, a tree is falling in the wood and the world has arrived to hear it. But, lest the political analyst burning the midnight oil to the hums of al-Jazeera forget, there is more to this late January than the toppling of an autocratic state. A state of mind is being rendered obsolete in the streets of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez; one far more autocratic than any billboard brazened political head could claim, or indeed claim not, to be.
Regardless of the result, generations of Middle Eastern political protagonists to come will refer to it as the moment agency became as Arabic a buzzword as apathy. They refer to Shabbi, the Tunisian poet, as they scream defiance on the streets. Mr. Revolution Through Arab Eyes. More bodies recovered from S Korea ferry#link# in latest attack on Egypt's police#link# 'blocks' UN envoy from Easter service#link# bomb blast kills policeman#link# killed in series of blasts in Iraq#link# divers remove first bodies from ferry #link# offers Easter truce in the east #link# avalanche death toll rises to 13#link# says reactor dispute 'virtually solved'#link# killed in Bahrain car blast#link# Pakistani journalist shot#link# army advances in besieged Homs#link# Korea divers see bodies inside sunken ferry#link# on S Sudan UN base may be 'war crime'#link# to 'help' Ukraine in overcoming crisis#link#
