1st Edition
US Hard Power in the Arab World Resistance, the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror
By Layla Saleh
Copyright 2017
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of America’s presence in the Arab world, and the scope and modes of its influence, all appear to have reached a crossroads since the Arab uprisings.
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1 Introduction: Narrating a "Smart" US into the Arab World 2. Outside-in Arab Political Change 3. "Hardening" Soft Power: The State of Exception 4. War on Terror Tales 5. There and Back Again: Enter the Arab Spring 6. Soft Power in the Syrian Revolution Silmiyyah 7. Conclusion: The Thawrah in the World
Biography
Layla Saleh is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Qatar University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, America.
