Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Spring That Wasn't
Author(s): Toby Matthiesen
Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Toby Matthiesen offers a first-hand account of the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf States, and shows how the regimes have encouraged sectarian divisions to undermine protests, effectively creating a Sectarian Gulf. While this has ensured regime survival in the short term, Matthiesen warns of dire consequences this will have--for the social fabric of the Gulf States, for the rise of transnational Islamist networks, and for foreign relations with the West--in the future.
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Toby Matthiesen is a Research Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. He has published in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Middle East Journal, and Middle East Report, and has done extensive fieldwork in the Middle East during the Arab Spring. He previously worked as a Gulf Consultant for the International Crisis Group.
General Fields
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- : Stanford University Press
- : Stanford University Press
- : 0.181
- : 02 July 2013
- : 216mm X 140mm X 10mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : illustrations, map.
- : 208
- : 327.5380
- : Paperback
- : Toby Matthiesen