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The Arab Spring has consistently confounded expectations. While many in the West believed that the uprisings would usher in a new age of liberal, secular democracy in the Middle East, in reality their outcomes have proven to be both complex and contradictory. Most ominously, many countries have already experienced a dramatic counterrevolution, in the form of renewed dictatorship, while others have simply descended into chaos and internal conflict. Richard Falk, a distinguished scholar of international law and former UN Rapporteur on Palestine, has been writing on the Arab Spring since its inception in 2011. Chaos and Counterrevolution brings together his collected writings on the uprisings and their aftermath across the region, and offers a unique perspective on these momentous events. Through essays whose subjects range from the Syrian civil war and the emergence of ISIS to the coup in Egypt and the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, Falk explores how and why the Arab Spring has drifted so far from its original goals, and demonstrates how the West has exacerbated the problem through inept and counterproductive interventionism. Chaos and Counterrevolution provides invaluable insight into what has already become one of the defining episodes of our age. (Copac)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Map 11 / Introduction 13 / 1Regional Perspectives 25 / Can Humanitarian Intervention Ever Be Humanitarian? 27 / Global Revolution Tahrir Square 34 / The Polarization of Immature Democracies 37 / Certain of Polarization Democracy 43 / Two Forms of Lethal Polarization / 2Egypt 59 / Egypt's Transformative Moment: / Revolution, Counterrevolution, or Reform 64 / The Toxic Residues of Colonialism: / Protecting Interests, Disregarding Rights 67 / What Winning? The Next Phase for Revolutionary Uprisings 71 / When Is an NGO Not an NGO? / Twists and Turns in the Cairo Sky 75 / Egypt between a Rock and a Hard Place 79 / Extreme Polarization and Genocidal Politics 87 / Acute Islamophobia in Egypt 92 / 3Libya 95 / Will We Ever Learn? Kicking the Intervention Habit 99 / A Critical Postscript to "Will We Ever Learn?" / Contra Intervention 101 / Qaddafi, Moral Interventionism, Libya, and the / Arab Revolutionary Moment 103 / Obama's Libyan Folly: To Be or Not to Be 107 / The International Criminal Court Plays Politics? / The Qaddafi Arrest Warrants / Libya after Muammar Qaddafi's Execution / Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State / 4Syria 119 / Geopolitical Mentoring versus Rehab for / Addicted Geopolitical Leaders 123 / Tragedy and Impotence 125 / Killing and Dying: Persisting Syrian Dilemmas 128 / The Wrong "Red Line" 132 / Contra Attacking Syria 136 / Questioning Obamacare for Syria 138 / Resolving the Syrian Chemical-Weapons Crisis: / Sunlight and Shadows 140 / Syria: What to Do Now 142 / The Obsolescence of Ideology: / Debating Syria and Ukraine 145 / Prosecuting Syrians for War Crimes Now 149 / 5Turkey 155 / Ahmet Davutoglu: Turkey's Foreign Minister 160 / Interpreting the AKP Victory in Turkey (with 164 / Turkey, the Region, and the West (with Hilal Elver) 168 / Turkey's Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited 171 / Ten Years of AKP Leadership in Turkey 175 / Whither Turkey: First Thoughts after Gezi Park 180 / Imperiled Polities: Egypt and Turkey 185 / Armenian Grievances, Turkey, the United States, and 1915 192 / 6Iran 201 / Confronting Iran: Warmongering in the Middle East 204 / Toward a Middle East Nucleas-Weapons-Free Zone 207 / Kenneth Waltz's Risky "Modest Proposal" / Was Wrong to Support the Iranian Revolution? 215 / Getting the Law and Politics Right in Iran 223 / 7Iraq 227 / Occupying Iraq and Higher Education: The Ghent Charter 230 / The Iraq War: 10 Years Later 232 / ISIS, Militarism, and the Violent Political Imagination 237 / Appendix: The Ghent Charter in Defense of Iraqi Academia247 / Acknowledgments 251 /