Amentahru Wahlrab is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler. Michael J. McNeal is Adjunct Instructor in Political Science at the Metropolitan State University, Denver.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Contesting the Dominant Narratives of the Arab SpringMichael J. McNeal and Amentahru WahlrabWashington’s Liberalist Ideological Stance and Contradictory Policies in the Middle EastMichael J. McNealStrategic or Democratic Interests? Framing US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Uprisings Anthony R. DiMaggio4. The Arab Spring, US Intervention in Libya, and the Lingering Politics of Rwandan RemorseIsaac Kamola5.Whither Wasatiyya? Locating Egypt’s Liminal Actors Five Years after the UprisingMichaelle Browers6.Discourses of Democracy and Gender: How and Why Do Women’s Rights Matter? Meghana Nayak7.Justin Zongo and the Place of the “Arab Spring”: Repression, Resistance, and Revolution in Egypt and Burkina Faso Nicholas A. Jackson8.A Matter of Protest: the Arab Spring in SyriaLarbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh9.Making Revolutionaries out of “Safe Citizens”: Sovereignty, Political Violence, and the Arab UprisingsAmentahru Wahlrab10. The Arab Uprisings and Twenty-First-Century Global Crisis: Is There an Emerging Network of Global Dissent? Eric FattorIndex

Amentahru Wahlrab is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler. Michael J. McNeal is Adjunct Instructor in Political Science at the Metropolitan State University, Denver.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Contesting the Dominant Narratives of the Arab SpringMichael J. McNeal and Amentahru WahlrabWashington’s Liberalist Ideological Stance and Contradictory Policies in the Middle EastMichael J. McNealStrategic or Democratic Interests? Framing US Foreign Policy in the Middle East Uprisings Anthony R. DiMaggio4. The Arab Spring, US Intervention in Libya, and the Lingering Politics of Rwandan RemorseIsaac Kamola5.Whither Wasatiyya? Locating Egypt’s Liminal Actors Five Years after the UprisingMichaelle Browers6.Discourses of Democracy and Gender: How and Why Do Women’s Rights Matter? Meghana Nayak7.Justin Zongo and the Place of the “Arab Spring”: Repression, Resistance, and Revolution in Egypt and Burkina Faso Nicholas A. Jackson8.A Matter of Protest: the Arab Spring in SyriaLarbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh9.Making Revolutionaries out of “Safe Citizens”: Sovereignty, Political Violence, and the Arab UprisingsAmentahru Wahlrab10. The Arab Uprisings and Twenty-First-Century Global Crisis: Is There an Emerging Network of Global Dissent? Eric FattorIndex