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A Revolution Gone Wrong: What Happened in Egypt Since 2011 - H. A. Hellyer. A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). Pp. 320. $29.95 cloth. ISBN 9780190659738. - David Kirkpatrick. Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East (New York: Viking, 2018). Pp. 384. $28.00 cloth. ISBN 9780735220621.

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H. A. Hellyer. A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). Pp. 320. $29.95 cloth. ISBN 9780190659738.
David Kirkpatrick. Into the Hands of Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East (New York: Viking, 2018). Pp. 384. $28.00 cloth. ISBN 9780735220621.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2019

Mieczysław P. Boduszyński
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński*
Affiliation:
Pomona College
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Nearly nine years after a Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself ablaze in provincial Tunisia, a sense that the aspirations of the Arab Spring were always doomed to fail has set in among pundits and policymakers. The United States, and to a large extent the European Union, have all but given up on any pretense of democracy promotion in the region and have instead turned again to well-trodden policy repertoires emphasizing a realpolitik approach.

Type
Field Spotlight: Book Review Essays and Reviews in Egypt & North Africa
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , June 2019 , pp. 117 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc. 2019 

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References

1 Anderson, Lisa, “Demystifying the Arab Spring: Parsing the Differences Between Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya,” Foreign Affairs 90, no. 3 (2011): 2–7Google Scholar.

2 For example, see Brownlee, Jason, Masoud, Tarek, and Reynolds, Andrew, The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Michael Wahid Hanna, “Contrary to Popular Opinion, Egypt's Transition Wasn't Always Doomed to Fail,” The Monkey Cage, January 28, 2016, ; Kristen Kao and Ellen Lust, “Snapshot—Why Did the Arab Uprisings Turn Out as They Did? A Survey of the Literature,” Project On Middle East Democracy (POMED), August 23, 2017, https://pomed.org/pomed-snapshot-why-did-the-arab-uprisings-turn-out-as-they-did-a-survey-of-the-literature/.