Sectarian politics in the Gulf : from the Iraq war to the Arab uprisings /
Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the Arab uprisings of 2011, Frederic Wehrey investigates the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian Gulf's political landscape. Focusing on three states affected most by sectarian tensions Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The roots of sectarianism. Governance, society, and identity in the gulf
- The long shadow of the Iranian revolution
- Bahrain. Debating participation: the Bahraini Shi'a and regional influences
- Sectarian balancing: the Bahraini Sunnis and a polarized parliament
- Into the abyss: the pearl roundabout uprising and its aftermath
- Saudi Arabia. Loyalties under fire: the Saudi Shi'a in the shadow of Iraq
- Under siege: the Salafi and regime counter-mobilization
- Waving 'Uthman's shirt: Saudi Arabia's sectarian spring
- Kuwait. Renegotiating a ruling bargain: the Kuwaiti Shi'a
- Tilting toward repression: the Sunni opposition and the Kuwaiti regime
- A balancing act goes awry: sectarianism and Kuwait's mass protests.
