{"product_id":"roots-of-the-arab-spring-9780812208412","title":"Roots of the Arab Spring","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn December 2010, the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor set off a wave of protests that have been termed the \"Arab Spring.\" These protests upended the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen while unsettling numerous other regimes throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Dafna Hochman Rand was a senior policy planner in the U.S. State Department as the uprisings unfolded. In \u003ci\u003eRoots of the Arab Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, she gives one of the first accounts of the systemic underlying forces that gave birth to the Arab Spring.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on three years of field research conducted before the protests, Rand shows how experts overlooked signs that political change was stirring in the region and overestimated the regimes' strategic capabilities to manage these changes. She argues that the Arab Spring was fifteen years in the making, gradually inflamed by growing popular demand—and expectation—for free expression, by top-down restrictions on citizens' political rights, and by the failure of the region's autocrats to follow through on liberalizing reforms they had promised more than a decade earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn incisive account of events whose ramifications are still unfolding, \u003ci\u003eRoots of the Arab Spring\u003c\/i\u003e captures the tectonic shifts in the region that led to the first major political upheaval of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dafna Hochman Rand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48291976806651,"sku":"9780812208412","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780812208412.jpg?v=1772482782","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/roots-of-the-arab-spring-9780812208412","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}