The volume
Output of the project on The Mediterranean Microcosm
in the Broader Relationship Between the West and the Arab-Muslim World conducted by IAI in cooperation with the
Center for the US and Europe (CUSE) of the
Brookings Institution, in Washington and the Robert Schuman Centre
(RSC) of the
European University Institute (EUI), in Florence.
The Arab Spring will be remembered as a period of great change for the Arab
states of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. The significant transitions
in governance are the result of the profound social, cultural, and religious changes
these countries have been undergoing for a long time. The European Union and
the United States, caught unprepared by the uprisings, now must address the inescapable
challenges of those changes. How will the West respond to these new realities, particularly
in light of international economic uncertainty, EU ambivalence toward a "cohesive
foreign policy," and declining U.S. influence abroad? The book explains and
interprets the societal transformations occurring in the Arab Muslim world,
their ramifications for the West, and possible policy options for dealing with
this new world. The volume examines areas of change particularly relevant in the
southern Mediterranean: demography and migration, Islamic revival and democracy,
rapidly changing roles of women in Arab society, the Internet in Arab societies,
commercial and social entrepreneurship as change factors, and the economics of
Arab transitions. The book then looks at those cultural and religious as well as
political and economic factors that have influenced the Western response, or
lack of it, to the Arab Spring as well as the policy options that remain open.
The editors
Cesare Merlini is non-resident Senior
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, and chairman of the board
of trustees with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome.
Oliver Roy is professor at the European
University Institute in Florence, directing the Mediterranean program at the
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and is a senior researcher at the
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
The authors
Roberto Aliboni, Carlos A. Primo Braga, Gary R. Bunt, Gonzalo Escribano, Philippe Fargues,
Caroline Freund, Jonathan Laurence, Alejandro Lorca, Cesare Merlini, Olivier Roy, Maria
Cristina Paciello, Renata Pepicelli, Alan Wolfe.
Table of contents
Foreword, Strobe Talbott, p. vii-ix
Acknowledgments, p. xi-xii
Introduction, Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy, p. 1-13
Pt. I. Societal Change in the Arab Muslim World
1. Demography, Migration, and Revolt in the Southern Mediterranean, Philippe Fargues, p. 17-46
2. Islamic Revival and Democracy: The Case in Tunisia and Egypt, Olivier Roy, p. 47-52
3. The Changing Role of Women in Society, Maria Cristina Paciello and Renata Pepicelli, p. 53-75
4. Mediterranean Islamic Expression and Web 2.0, Gary R. Bunt, p. 76-95
5. Modern Commercial and Social Entrepreneurship as a Factor of Change, Gonzalo Escribano and Alejandro Lorca, p. 96-121
6. The Economics of Arab Transitions, Caroline Freund and Carlos A. Primo Braga, p. 122-143
Pt. II. Consequences and Policy Options
7. Midwife or Spectator? U.S. Policies toward North Africa in the Twenty-First Century, Jonathan Laurence, p. 147-168
8. The Power of False Analogies: Misunderstanding Political Islam in a Post-Totalitarian World, Alan Wolfe, p. 169-183
9. Societal Change and Political Responses in Euro-Mediterranean Relations, Roberto Aliboni, p. 184-213
10. The West and the Islamist Challenge: Toward a Common Religious Market?, Olivier Roy, p. 214-226
11. The Challenge of a Changing Arab Islam in Future Transatlantic Relations, Cesare Merlini, p. 227-252
Contributors, p. 253-257
Index, p. 259-268
Presentation
Conference, Rome, 6 September 2012
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