Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, both also published by SUNY Press.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Pangaea II: Global/Local StudiesIntroductionSaïd Amir Arjomand1. The Arab Revolution 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative PerspectiveSaïd Amir Arjomand2. Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011Jack A. Goldstone3. Is Democracy a Mirage? The Arab Awakening in Comparative PerspectiveRoberto Toscano4. Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World PerspectiveKevan Harris5. A Place for Revolution: Urban Space in the Arab SpringCan Ersoy6. Quest for the Dawla Madania (Civic State): Visions of Egyptian StatehoodDalia E. Wahdan7. The First Year of the Tunisian RevolutionJean-Pierre Filiu8. Why Burkina’s Spring Fizzled Away: Paradoxes of a Semiauthoritarian RegimeMathieu Hilgers and Augustin Loada9. Civil Society in a Transcultural Comparison: Eastern Europe and the MENA RegionKarim Fathi and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski10. The 2017 Problem: A Next Revolutionary SituationDmitry Ivanov ContributorsIndex

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, both also published by SUNY Press.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Pangaea II: Global/Local StudiesIntroductionSaïd Amir Arjomand1. The Arab Revolution 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative PerspectiveSaïd Amir Arjomand2. Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011Jack A. Goldstone3. Is Democracy a Mirage? The Arab Awakening in Comparative PerspectiveRoberto Toscano4. Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World PerspectiveKevan Harris5. A Place for Revolution: Urban Space in the Arab SpringCan Ersoy6. Quest for the Dawla Madania (Civic State): Visions of Egyptian StatehoodDalia E. Wahdan7. The First Year of the Tunisian RevolutionJean-Pierre Filiu8. Why Burkina’s Spring Fizzled Away: Paradoxes of a Semiauthoritarian RegimeMathieu Hilgers and Augustin Loada9. Civil Society in a Transcultural Comparison: Eastern Europe and the MENA RegionKarim Fathi and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski10. The 2017 Problem: A Next Revolutionary SituationDmitry Ivanov ContributorsIndex

Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, both also published by SUNY Press.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Pangaea II: Global/Local StudiesIntroductionSaïd Amir Arjomand1. The Arab Revolution 2011 and Its Counterrevolutions in Comparative PerspectiveSaïd Amir Arjomand2. Bringing Regimes Back In: Explaining Success and Failure in the Middle East Revolts of 2011Jack A. Goldstone3. Is Democracy a Mirage? The Arab Awakening in Comparative PerspectiveRoberto Toscano4. Did Inequality Breed the Arab Uprisings? Social Inequality in the Middle East from a World PerspectiveKevan Harris5. A Place for Revolution: Urban Space in the Arab SpringCan Ersoy6. Quest for the Dawla Madania (Civic State): Visions of Egyptian StatehoodDalia E. Wahdan7. The First Year of the Tunisian RevolutionJean-Pierre Filiu8. Why Burkina’s Spring Fizzled Away: Paradoxes of a Semiauthoritarian RegimeMathieu Hilgers and Augustin Loada9. Civil Society in a Transcultural Comparison: Eastern Europe and the MENA RegionKarim Fathi and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski10. The 2017 Problem: A Next Revolutionary SituationDmitry Ivanov ContributorsIndex