Contentious Politics in the Middle East

While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.

Jan Wilkens, University of Hamburg, Germany Mishana Hosseinioun, University of Oxford, UK Anastasia Nosova, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Aula Hariri, Queen Mary University of London, UK Jasmine Gani, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Inez von Weitershausen, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Eugenio Lilli, King's College London, UK David Zarnett, University of Toronto , Canada Suzanne Morrison, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Magdalena C. Delgado, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK O?uzhan Göksel, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkey Suzan Gibril, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Cleo Jay, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Laura Galián, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Ay?e Dursun, University of Vienna, Austria Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Birce Alt?ok-Kar??yaka, Koç University, Turkey Kerem Y?ld?r?m, Koç University, Turkey Pascal Debruyne, Ghent University, Belgium Christopher Parker, Ghent University, Belgium Ala?a Tartir, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Hadi Makarem, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Harry Pettit, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK