From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy - Tapa blanda

Filiu, Jean-Pierre

 
9781849045469: From Deep State to Islamic State: The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy
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ISBN 10: 1849045461 ISBN 13: 9781849045469
Editorial: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2015

Sinopsis

In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab Revolution'. In pursuit of these goals they turned to the intelligence agencies and internal security arms of the 'deep state', the armed forces and to street gangs such as the Shabiha to enforce their will. Alongside physical intimidation, imprisonment and murder, Arab counter- revolutionaries discredited and split their opponents by boosting Salafi - Jihadi groups such as Islamic State. They also released from prison hardline Islamists and secretly armed and funded them. The full potential of the Arab counter-revolution surprised most observers, who thought they had seen it all from the Arab despots: their perversity, their brutality, their voracity. But the wider world underestimated their ferocious readiness to literally burn down their countries in order to cling to absolute power.Bashar al-Assad clambered to the top of this murderous class of tyrants, driving nearly half of the Syrian population in to exile and executing tens of thousands of his opponents. He has set a grisly precedent, one that other Arab autocrats are sure to follow in their pursuit of absolute power.

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Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and has held visiting professorships at both Columbia University and Georgetown University. His book The Apocalypse in Islam was awarded the main prize by the French History Association. His books and articles on the Arab world have been published in a dozen languages. His most recent book, Gaza: A History, is also available from Hurst.

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Editorial
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
2015
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ISBN 10 
1849045461
ISBN 13 
9781849045469
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Número de páginas
224
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