TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthiesen,Toby
TI  - Sectarian gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that wasn't 
SN  - 0804787220
AV  - DS247.B28 M38 2013
U1  - 953.6 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press
KW  - Protest movements
KW  - Bahrain
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Sh�i�ah
KW  - Relations
KW  - Sunnites
KW  - Arab Spring, 2010-
KW  - Contestation
KW  - Bahre�in
KW  - Arabie saoudite
KW  - Printemps arabe, 2010-2011
KW  - Chiisme
KW  - Sunnisme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Middle East
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Interfaith relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Persian Gulf States
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - 21e si�ecle
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Oil, God, and pearls -- The great sectarian game -- Pearl roundabout -- Counter-revolution -- A Saudi achilles heel -- The orange movement -- Arab springs, Arab falls
N2  - As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the region. With first-hand accounts of events in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesen tells the story of the early protests, and illuminates how the regimes quickly suppressed these movements. Pitting citizen against citizen, the regimes have warned of an increasing threat from the Shia population. Relations between
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