The Arab Spring: A Bold Thesis
School of Politics, History and International Relations, Malaysia Campus invites you to attend a discussion presented by Dr Daniel Ritter from the University of Nottingham UK.
Dr Ritter is the author of The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa (Oxford University Press 2015) and is the Assistant Professor University of Nottingham UK Campus.
The Financial Times, in a review of Ritter’s widely praised book on the Arab Spring asked Why were the Middle East revolutions that replaced authoritarian regimes with relatively little bloodshed as peaceful as they were? Why did some autocrats — Tunisia’s Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak — go rather than slaughter their way to continued rule? And why did some — including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, so far successfully, and Muammer Gaddafi of Libya suicidally — take the slaughterhouse turn?
Of Ritter’s answer to these questions (to be revealed at the talk) the Financial Times writes It is a bold thesis for a young academic to advance.
Come and hear Dr Ritter’s bold thesis!
Details:
Date: 28 April 2015, Tuesday
Time: 16:00 to 17:00
Venue: F3B09
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
Jalan Broga 43500 Semenyih Selangor Darul Ehsan
About the speaker:
Dr Daniel Ritter is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations. His main area of research is contentious politics, in particular revolutions and social movements, and international relations. Prior to joining the School, Daniel spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University, and before that two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2010.
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