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Title: From deep state to Islamic state : the Arab counter-revolution and its jihadi legacy / Jean-Pierre Filiu.
The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
CERI series in comparative politics and international studies.
Author: Filiu, Jean-Pierre, author.
General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-272) and index.
Meet the deep state -- The mythical fathers of the nation -- The modern Mamluks -- The Algerian matrix -- The rise of the security mafias -- The 'global terror' next door -- The story of two squares in Egypt -- Evil twins in Yemen and Syria -- Strangling Palestine -- The Tunisian alternative.
"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 literally to 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." -- Publisher's description

Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Publication Place: Oxford :
ISBN: 9780190264062
0190264063
Subject: Counterrevolutionaries -- Arab countries.
Intelligence service -- Arab countries.
Jihad.
Terrorism -- Arab countries.
Authoritarianism -- Arab countries -- 21st century.
Islam and state -- Arab countries.
Authoritarianism.
Counterrevolutionaries.
Intelligence service.
Islam and state.
Politics and government.
Terrorism.
Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Islamische Staaten.
Arab countries.
Arab Spring (2010-)
Series: The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
CERI series in comparative politics and international studies.
Contents: Meet the deep state -- The mythical fathers of the nation -- The modern Mamluks -- The Algerian matrix -- The rise of the security mafias -- The 'global terror' next door -- The story of two squares in Egypt -- Evil twins in Yemen and Syria -- Strangling Palestine -- The Tunisian alternative.

Physical Description: xvi, 311 pages ;

Publication Date: [2015]
2015

	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Item Notes:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	Yarmouk	General	JQ1850.A91 F56 2015	Normal Circulation	Available	الكتاب موجود في الطابق الثاني	YU565956	Book