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050 4 $aJQ1850.A91$bF56 2015
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100 1 $aFiliu, Jean-Pierre,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFrom deep state to Islamic state :$bthe Arab counter-revolution and its jihadi legacy /$cJean-Pierre Filiu.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c℗♭2015
300 $axvi, 311 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe CERI series in comparative politics and international studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-272) and index.
505 0 $aMeet 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.
520 $a"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
651 0 $aArab countries$xPolitics and government$y21st century.
650 0 $aArab Spring, 2010-
650 0 $aCounterrevolutionaries$zArab countries.
650 0 $aIntelligence service$zArab countries.
650 0 $aJihad.
650 0 $aTerrorism$zArab countries.
650 0 $aAuthoritarianism$zArab countries$y21st century.
650 0 $aIslam and state$zArab countries.
830 0 $aCERI series in comparative politics and international studies.
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