Book contents
- Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
- Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Surge of Armies in Arab States
- 2 Changing Dynamics with the Rise of New Kinds of Authoritarian Regimes
- 3 Armies Living under Enduring Authoritarian Regimes
- 4 Are Arab Monarchical Militaries Different?
- 5 Agency Restored?
- 6 Post-uprising Eras and (Tentative) Regime Re-formations
- Conclusion
- Index
6 - Post-uprising Eras and (Tentative) Regime Re-formations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
- Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
- Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Surge of Armies in Arab States
- 2 Changing Dynamics with the Rise of New Kinds of Authoritarian Regimes
- 3 Armies Living under Enduring Authoritarian Regimes
- 4 Are Arab Monarchical Militaries Different?
- 5 Agency Restored?
- 6 Post-uprising Eras and (Tentative) Regime Re-formations
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 covers the post-uprisings period. Whatever the poor harvest in terms of democratic advances nine years later, many Arab states have witnessed an unprecedented wave of changes and reactions (counterrevolutionary moves) similar in importance to the revolutions of the 1950s–1960s. The term revolution (thawra) was first widely used, with the Tocquevillian caveat about the relevance of the state and the power structures of old regimes both for the breakdown and then regime re-formation – and the effect of huge social mobilization should not be assessed only with the notion of a unified outcome (success or failure) at the macro-level in the short term. This chapter shows the tentative deployment of the military's institutional power with different outcomes. Notwithstanding the enduring Tunisian exception and the case of full civil war in Syria, the picture is mixed with reinforced militarism in Egypt, attempts elsewhere in a context of acute threats and boiling regional context, yet with inherent weaknesses and risks of fragmentation.
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- Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World , pp. 216 - 278Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020