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And the Battle for Pluralism
Yale University Press
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
232 pages ISBN: 0300186398 EAN: 9780300186390 Kindle: B00HS4GMPS Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
This important book is not about immediate events or
policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes
a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab
world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth
century and extending into future decades when—if the dream
is realized—a new Arab world defined by pluralism and
tolerance will emerge. Marwan
Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, asserts that all
sides—the United States, Europe, Israel, and Arab
governments alike—were deeply misguided in their thinking
about Arab politics and society when the turmoil of the Arab
Spring erupted. He explains the causes of the unrest,
tracing them back to the first Arab Awakening, and warns of
the forces today that threaten the success of the Second
Arab Awakening, ignited in December 2010. Hope rests with
the new generation and its commitment to tolerance,
diversity, the peaceful rotation of power, and inclusive
economic growth, Muasher maintains. He calls on the West to
rethink political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and
he discusses steps all parties can take to encourage
positive state-building in the freshly unsettled Arab
world.
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