After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked The Middle East Rev...

 Product details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (19 Jan. 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 9780230338197 ISBN-13: 978-0230338197 ASIN: 0230338194 When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counter narrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking. Please seed. Thanks!