Revisiting the Arab uprisings: the politics of a revolutionary moment

Introduction : taking the Arab transitions seriously /Stéphane Lacroix and Jean-Pierre Filiu --Toward a 'democracy with democrats' in Tunisia : mutual accommodation between Islamic and secular activists /Alfred Stepan --Constituting constitutionalsim : lessons from the Arab world /Nathan Brown --Bullets beat ballots : the Arab uprisings and civil-military relations in Egypt /Omar Ashour --Militaries and democracies in the Middle East : too much and too little /Steven Cook --Modern Mamlouks and Arab counter-revolution /Jean-Pierre Filiu --Trashing transitions : the role of Arab media after the uprisings /Marc Lynch --Not ready for democracy : modernisation, pluralism and the Arab Spring /Tarek Masoud --International assistance to Arab Spring transitions /Zaid al-Ali --Confronting the dictatorial past in Tunisia : towards a political understanding of transitional justice /Kora Andrieu --With or without you? Transitional justice and political transitions in Morocco and Tunisia /Frédéric Vairel --Transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt /Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron.

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transations that occurred in the countries whose regimes were toppled in 2011, as if they were merely footnotes to a narrative that naturally led from an 'Arab Spring' to an 'Arab Winter.' This volume aims at rehabilitating those transitions, by considering them as expressions of a 'revolutionary moment' whose outcome was never pre-determined, but depended on the choices of a large range of actors. It brings together leading scholars of Arab politics to adopt comparative approach to a few crucial aspects of those transitions: constitional debates, the question of transitional justice, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the role of specific actors, both domestic and international.

Introduction : taking the Arab transitions seriously /Stéphane Lacroix and Jean-Pierre Filiu --Toward a 'democracy with democrats' in Tunisia : mutual accommodation between Islamic and secular activists /Alfred Stepan --Constituting constitutionalsim : lessons from the Arab world /Nathan Brown --Bullets beat ballots : the Arab uprisings and civil-military relations in Egypt /Omar Ashour --Militaries and democracies in the Middle East : too much and too little /Steven Cook --Modern Mamlouks and Arab counter-revolution /Jean-Pierre Filiu --Trashing transitions : the role of Arab media after the uprisings /Marc Lynch --Not ready for democracy : modernisation, pluralism and the Arab Spring /Tarek Masoud --International assistance to Arab Spring transitions /Zaid al-Ali --Confronting the dictatorial past in Tunisia : towards a political understanding of transitional justice /Kora Andrieu --With or without you? Transitional justice and political transitions in Morocco and Tunisia /Frédéric Vairel --Transitional justice in post-revolutionary Egypt /Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron.

Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the countries whose regimes were toppled in 2011, as if they were merely footnotes to a narrative that naturally led from an 'Arab Spring' to an 'Arab Winter'. This volume aims at rehabilitating those transitions, by considering them as expressions of a 'revolutionary moment' whose outcome was never pre-determined, but depended on the choices of a large range of actors. It brings together leading scholars of Arab politics to adopt a comparative approach to a few crucial aspects of those transitions: constitutional debates, the question of transitional justice, the evolution of civil-military relations, and the role of specific actors, both domestic and international.