Undesired Revolution: The Arab Uprising in Egypt: A Three Level Analysis

This book introduces new non-Western perspectives on the Arab Uprisings, decentering and decolonizing International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. Drawing on over 10 years of fieldwork, ethnography, over 250 interviews, and empirical research, it is one of the first books to evaluate the position of International Relations theorists towards the study of the Arab Uprisings. It relies on local IR scholarship from the region, which is rarely considered. It provides a critical account of why democratic revolutions have failed, how counterrevolutions and authoritarianism have fortified, and why revolutions will once again experience a resurgence in this part of the world.

Ahmed M. Abozaid, Ph.D. (2022), University of St Andrews, is Lecturer of International Security at the University of Southampton and has published many books in Arabic and English, including Counterterrorism Strategies in Egypt (Routledge, 2022).