The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine
This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring.

As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action—or inaction—in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion.

While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.

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The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine
This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring.

As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action—or inaction—in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion.

While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.

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The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine

The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine

by Edward A. Lynch
The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine

The Arab Spring: The Failure of the Obama Doctrine

by Edward A. Lynch

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This title provides a succinct, readable, and comprehensive treatment of how the Obama administration reacted to what was arguably the most difficult foreign policy challenge of its eight years in office: the Arab Spring.

As a prelude to examining how the United States reacted to the first wave of the Arab Spring in the 21st century, this book begins with an examination of how the U.S. reacted to revolution in the 19th and 20th centuries and a summary of how foreign policy is made. Each revolution in the Arab Spring (in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen) and the Obama administration's action—or inaction—in response is carefully analyzed. The U.S.' role is compared to that of regional powers, such as Turkey, Israel, and Iran. The impact of U.S. abdication in the face of pivotal events in the region is the subject of the book's conclusion.

While other treatments have addressed how the Arab Spring revolutions have affected the individual countries where these revolutions took place, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and President Barack Obama's overall foreign policy, this is the only work that provides a comprehensive examination of both the Arab Spring revolutions themselves and the reaction of the U.S. government to those revolutions.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440876424
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/18/2021
Series: Praeger Security International
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 786 KB

About the Author

Edward A. Lynch, PhD, is John P. Wheeler Professor of Political Science at Hollins University. He is author of The Cold War's Last Battlefield: Reagan, the Soviets, and Central America and numerous other works on U.S. foreign policy in the developing world.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

1 Introduction 1

2 Antecedents: The United States and "Waves" of Revolution 13

3 The Arab Spring Begins: Revolution in Tunisia 31

4 The Arab Spring Gets Serious: Revolution in Egypt 45

5 The Arab Spring Gets Dangerous: Revolution in Libya 64

6 The Arab Spring Gets Deadly: Red Lines in Syria 90

7 The Arab Spring Is Preempted: Attempted Revolution in Bahrain 111

8 The Arab Spring Becomes a Proxy War: Yemen 127

9 The Ripple Effects of the Arab Spring: AQIM and ISIS 143

10 The Arab Spring Is Outmaneuvered: Constitutional Change from Above in Morocco 161

11 The Arab Spring Creates New Players: Turkey Iran, Israel 178

12 Conclusion 196

Epilogue: A Second Wave of Arab Spring? 205

Notes 219

Index 261

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