When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Western pundits were quick to hail the stirrings of an Arab Spring and draw parallels between the resulting upheaval in the Middle East and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In The Tunisian Tsunami John R. Bradley offers a sober counternarrative to this outlook. It is not liberalism, democracy, and pluralism that will emerge triumphant, he argues, but instead radical Islam. Bradley illustrates how, in a region awash with extremist Wahhabi ideology, intertribal rivalries, and Sunni-Shia divisions, the idea that liberal and progressive trends will prevail is little more than wishful thinking.
- ISBN10 0230338194
- ISBN13 9780230338197
- Publish Date 19 January 2012 (first published 3 January 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English