Drawing on an A-list of Middle East experts, this book assesses the relative merits of the thwarted paths to democracy in the "Arab Spring" states.
Stéphane Lacroix is an associate professor of Political Science at Sciences Po and a researcher at Sciences Po's Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI). He is the co-author of Saudi Arabia in Transition and of Egypt's Revolutions. Jean-Pierre Filiu is Professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and has held visiting professorships at both Columbia University and Georgetown University. He is the author of From Deep State to Islamic State and Gaza: A History, also available from Oxford University Press.
