Sectarian politics in the Gulf : from the Iraq war to the Arab uprisings /

Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the Arab uprisings of 2011, Frederic Wehrey investigates the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian Gulf's political landscape. Focusing on three states affected most by sectarian tensions Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait...

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主要作者: Wehrey, Frederic M.
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: New York : Columbia University Press [2014]
丛编:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/wehr16512
书本目录:
  • The roots of sectarianism. Governance, society, and identity in the gulf
  • The long shadow of the Iranian revolution
  • Bahrain. Debating participation: the Bahraini Shi'a and regional influences
  • Sectarian balancing: the Bahraini Sunnis and a polarized parliament
  • Into the abyss: the pearl roundabout uprising and its aftermath
  • Saudi Arabia. Loyalties under fire: the Saudi Shi'a in the shadow of Iraq
  • Under siege: the Salafi and regime counter-mobilization
  • Waving 'Uthman's shirt: Saudi Arabia's sectarian spring
  • Kuwait. Renegotiating a ruling bargain: the Kuwaiti Shi'a
  • Tilting toward repression: the Sunni opposition and the Kuwaiti regime
  • A balancing act goes awry: sectarianism and Kuwait's mass protests.