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Author : Fawas A. Gerges

Publisher : Princeton University Press

ISBN : 9780691176635

Call Number : 320.95694 GER

Summary:

The Middle East is in upheaval: a widening chasm between state and society, the failure of governing elites to address citizens’ management—all made worse by repeated misinterventions by Western powers. Why has in political change been so difficult to achieve? In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges argues that the convergence of authoritarianism, meddling by the West, and the effects of prolonged regional analysis and economic stagnation. The agency of everyday people has been thwarted by an authoritarian status quo nourished by external and internal forces. Gerges traces more than a century of the consequential events in the region, from the end of the Ottoman Empire and the European carve-up of the Middle East to the uprisings. He shows how the Arab Spring uprising carve-up of how the people of the Middle East have been systematically denied self-determination, political representation, and the effective governance, with its government. Gerges finds that the region, with its diversity, variance, and volatility, defies abstract grand theories; previous accounts that have attributed the Middle East’s problems to any one cause such as modernism, ignore the complexity and specificity of the issues. What can we learn from the Middle East’s vexed history? Gerges declares that the region’s future will be determined not by dictators and their superpowers but by Arab and Muslim youth growing will be determined by their demand to be treated as citizens and not as subjects.