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The Arab Spring in the Global Political Economy

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  1. Leila Simona Talani

    1. King’s College London, UK

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Leila Simona Talani
    Pages 1-13

  3. The Chinese Butterfly and the Arab Spring: Bread and Globalisation

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    Pages 14-44

  4. The Paradox of Regionalisation within Globalisation: Some Theoretical Concerns

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    Pages 45-75

  5. The Paradox of Marginalisation: Globalisation, Marginalisation and Civil Society in the MENA Area

    • Leila Simona Talani
    Pages 76-109

  6. The Economic Marginalisation and Lack of Regionalisation of the MENA Area

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    Pages 110-148

  7. Tunisia: At the Roots of the Arab Spring: Economic Restructuring without Integration

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    Pages 149-176

  8. Egypt: From Liberalisation to Marginalisation

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    Pages 177-203

  9. Libya: The Political Economy of Isolation

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    Pages 204-227

  10. Conclusion

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    Pages 228-241

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 243-251
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Although it is still early for an established academic account of the motivations behind the dramatic events in the Arab world in 2010/11, Leila Simona Talani believes that it is about time to try and place this issue into the broader picture of the latest changes in the global political economy.

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  • King’s College London, UK

    Leila Simona Talani

About the author

Leila Simona Talani is full Professor of International Political Economy and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Economy at King's College London, UK. She was previously a lecturer in European Politics at the University of Bath and a research fellow and then lecturer at the European Institute of the London School of Economics. In 2001 she spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo. Her current research interests focus on globalisation and the future of the Arab Spring as well as the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU. She is the author of Globalization, Hegemony and the Future of the City of London (2011), Europe and the Financial Crisis (with Pompeo Della Posta, 2011), and Dirty Cities: Towards a Political Economy of the Underground in Global Cities (2013) among other titles.

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