1 Introduction
Notes 1 Introduction 1. For example, see F. Gregory Gause III, “Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring: The Myth of Authoritarian Stability,” Foreign Affairs 90, 4 (July/August 2011): 81–90; Kenneth McKenzie and Elizabeth Packard, “Enduring Interests and Partnerships: Military-to-Military Relationships in the Arab Spring,” Prism 3, 1 (December 2011): 99–106; Dennis Blair, “Military Support for Democracy,” Prism 3, 3 (June 2012): 3–16. 2. Roger Owen, The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012). 3. H. E. Yithrak Levenon (former Israeli ambassador to Egypt), interview by author, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2012. 4. Ashraf Khalil, Liberation Square: Inside the Egyptian Revolution and the Rebirth of a Nation (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011), 8. 5. See Anthony Cordesman’s 2011 report on turmoil in the Middle East: Stability in the Middle East: The Other Side of Security (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2011). 6. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (New York: Crown Business, 2012), 68–81. 7. Ellen Lust-Kar, Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). 8. Owen, Presidents for Life, 54. 9. Ted Gurr, Why Men Rebel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970), 13. 10. Louis Kriesberg and Bruce W. Dayton, Constructive Conflicts: From Escalation to Resolution, 4th ed. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2012), 49–80. 11. Suzanne Maloney, “The Economic Dimension: The Price of Freedom,” in The Arab Awakening: America and the Transformation of the Middle East, ed.
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