Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World

Lisa Blaydes is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.Amr Hamzawy is the Director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Hesham Sallam is a Research Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsPREFACEHicham AlaouiIntroduction Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the SpringHesham Sallam, Lisa Blaydes, and Amr HamzawyI. Regime Strategies of ControlChapter 1 Authoritarian Narratives and Practices in EgyptAmr HamzawyChapter 2 The People Vs. the Palace: Power and Politics in Morocco since 2011Samia ErrazzoukiChapter 3 Kuwait’s Changing Landscape: Palace Projects and the Decline of Rule by ConsensusFarah Al-NakibChapter 4 The Decay of Family Rule in Saudi ArabiaMichael HerbChapter 5 Syria’s Repressive PeaceSamer AbboudII. Opposition Mobilization Strategies and Obstacles to ReformChapter 6 Mobilization without Movement: Opposition and Youth Activism in JordanSean YomChapter 7 Cycles of Contention in LebanonLina KhatibChapter 8 Algeria: Anatomy of a Revolutionary SituationThomas SerresChapter 9 The Nexus of Patronage, Petrol, and Population in IraqDavid Siddhartha PatelChapter 10 Understanding the Roots, Dynamics, and Potential of an “Impossible” Revolution: The Prospects and Challenges of Democratization in SudanKhalid Mustafa MedaniChapter 11 Tunisia: The Challenges of Party Consolidation and the Specter of Authoritarian ReversalLindsay J. BensteadChapter 12 Examining Yemen’s Post-2011 Trajectory: From Reform to War to Many YemensApril Longley AlleyIII. Transnational InfluencesChapter 13 U.S. Influence on Arab Regimes: From Reluctant Democracy Supporter to Authoritarian EnablerSarah YerkesChapter 14 Chinese Soft Power Projection in the Arab World: From the Belt and Road Initiative to Global Pandemic ResponseLisa BlaydesChapter 15 Iran’s Culture Wars in the Arab WorldAbbas MilaniChapter 16 The Arab Counter-Revolution: The Formation of a Regional Alliance to Undermine the Arab SpringToby MatthiesenChapter 17 Myths of Expansion: Turkey's Changing Policy in the Arab WorldAyça Alemdaroğlu and Gönül TolConclusion: The Ongoing Struggle for Political Reform in the Arab WorldLarry DiamondList of Contributors

“With analytical distance now possible, the contributors to this volume show something more subtle than the simply failed revolutions. Instead, they probe ways in which regimes have significantly evolved but also how politics and contestation continue in ways that seem to compensate in persistence what they may sometimes lack in drama.”—Nathan Brown, George Washington University