Table Of ContentMilitary Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
Asidefromlarge-scalecivicmobilizations,noforcewasmorecriticalto
theoutcomesofthe2011Arabuprisingsthanthearmedforces.Nearly
adecadeaftertheseevents,weseemilitariesacrosstheregioninpower,
onceagainperformingcriticalrolesinstatepolitics.Takingasapointof
referencefivecasestudieswhereuprisingstookplacein2011,Tunisia,
Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, Philippe Droz-Vincent explores how
thesearmieswereabletoinstallthemselvesfordecadesunderenduring
authoritarianregimes,howtheyreactedtothe2011uprisingsandwhat
roletheyplayedinthepost-uprisingregimere-formationsorcollapses.
DevotingachaptertomonarchicalarmieswithaspecialfocusonSaudi
Arabia and the UAE, Droz-Vincent addresses whether monarchies
radically differ from republics, to compare the foundational role of
Arabarmiesinstate-building,intheArabworldandbeyond.
PhilippeDroz-VincentisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatSciences-Po
Grenoble, France. He has written widely on Arab political regimes,
authoritarianism, armies and American foreign policy in the Middle
East. He is the author of The Middle East: Authoritarian Regimes and
StalledSocieties(2004),DizzinessofPower:TheAmericanMomentinthe
MiddleEast(2007)inFrenchandnumerousarticlesinjournalsincluding
theMiddleEastJournal,theInternationalSpectatorandtheInternational
JournalofMiddleEastStudies.
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Military Politics
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Arab World
Philippe Droz-Vincent
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Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
Asidefromlarge-scalecivicmobilizations,noforcewasmorecriticalto
theoutcomesofthe2011Arabuprisingsthanthearmedforces.Nearly
adecadeaftertheseevents,weseemilitariesacrosstheregioninpower,
onceagainperformingcriticalrolesinstatepolitics.Takingasapointof
referencefivecasestudieswhereuprisingstookplacein2011,Tunisia,
Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, Philippe Droz-Vincent explores how
thesearmieswereabletoinstallthemselvesfordecadesunderenduring
authoritarianregimes,howtheyreactedtothe2011uprisingsandwhat
roletheyplayedinthepost-uprisingregimere-formationsorcollapses.
DevotingachaptertomonarchicalarmieswithaspecialfocusonSaudi
Arabia and the UAE, Droz-Vincent addresses whether monarchies
radically differ from republics, to compare the foundational role of
Arabarmiesinstate-building,intheArabworldandbeyond.
PhilippeDroz-VincentisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatSciences-Po
Grenoble, France. He has written widely on Arab political regimes,
authoritarianism, armies and American foreign policy in the Middle
East. He is the author of The Middle East: Authoritarian Regimes and
StalledSocieties(2004),DizzinessofPower:TheAmericanMomentinthe
MiddleEast(2007)inFrenchandnumerousarticlesinjournalsincluding
theMiddleEastJournal,theInternationalSpectatorandtheInternational
JournalofMiddleEastStudies.
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Military Politics
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Arab World
Philippe Droz-Vincent
Sciences-PoGrenoble
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UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom
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477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,
NewDelhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
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DOI:10.1017/9781108769839
©PhilippeDroz-Vincent2021
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andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
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Firstpublished2021
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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData
Names:Droz-Vincent,Philippe,author.
Title:MilitaryPoliticsoftheContemporaryArabWorld/PhilippeDroz-Vincent,
Sciences-PoGrenoble.
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
UniversityPress,2021.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020018245 (print) | LCCN 2020018246 (ebook) | ISBN
9781108477420 (hardback) | ISBN 9781108708685 (paperback) | ISBN
9781108769839(ebook)
Subjects:LCSH:Civil-militaryrelations–Arabcountries.|Arabcountries–Armed
Forces–Politicalactivity.|Arabcountries–Militaryrelations.|ArabSpring,2010-
|Arabcountries–Politicsandgovernment–21stcentury.
Classification:LCCJQ1850.A38D762021(print)|LCCJQ1850.A38(ebook)
|DDC909/.097492708312–dc23
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Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
Asidefromlarge-scalecivicmobilizations,noforcewasmorecriticalto
theoutcomesofthe2011Arabuprisingsthanthearmedforces.Nearly
adecadeaftertheseevents,weseemilitariesacrosstheregioninpower,
onceagainperformingcriticalrolesinstatepolitics.Takingasapointof
referencefivecasestudieswhereuprisingstookplacein2011,Tunisia,
Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, Philippe Droz-Vincent explores how
thesearmieswereabletoinstallthemselvesfordecadesunderenduring
authoritarianregimes,howtheyreactedtothe2011uprisingsandwhat
roletheyplayedinthepost-uprisingregimere-formationsorcollapses.
DevotingachaptertomonarchicalarmieswithaspecialfocusonSaudi
Arabia and the UAE, Droz-Vincent addresses whether monarchies
radically differ from republics, to compare the foundational role of
Arabarmiesinstate-building,intheArabworldandbeyond.
PhilippeDroz-VincentisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatSciences-Po
Grenoble, France. He has written widely on Arab political regimes,
authoritarianism, armies and American foreign policy in the Middle
East. He is the author of The Middle East: Authoritarian Regimes and
StalledSocieties(2004),DizzinessofPower:TheAmericanMomentinthe
MiddleEast(2007)inFrenchandnumerousarticlesinjournalsincluding
theMiddleEastJournal,theInternationalSpectatorandtheInternational
JournalofMiddleEastStudies.
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