Description: From Deep State to Islamic State : The Arab Counter-Revolution and its Jihadi Legacy, Hardcover by Filiu, Jean-Pierre, ISBN 0190264063, ISBN-13 9780190264062, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by
the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the Arab Revolution.
In pursuit of these goals they turned to the intelligence agencies and internal security arms of the deep state, the armed forces, and to street gangs such as the Shabiha to enforce their will. Alongside physical intimidation, imprisonment and murder, Arab counter-revolutionaries discredited and
split their opponents by boosting Salafi-Jihadi groups such as Islamic State. They also released from prison hardline Islamists and secretly armed and funded them.
The full potential of the Arab counter-revolution surprised most observers, who thought they had seen it all from the Arab despots: their perversity, their brutality, their voracity. But the wider world underestimated their ferocious readiness literally to burn down their countries in order to cling
to absolute power. Bashar al-Assad clambered to the top of this murderous class of tyrants, driving nearly half of the Syrian population in to exile and executing tens of thousands of his opponents. He has set a grisly precedent, one that other Arab autocrats are sure to follow in their pursuit of
absolute power.
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Book Title: From Deep State to Islamic State : the Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.3 in
Topic: Terrorism, World / Middle Eastern
Genre: Political Science
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Author: Jean-Pierre Filiu
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
