This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years. It argues that to understand the events of the uprisings we must look at relations between rulers and ruled along with the strategies used by regimes to exert sovereign power.

Simon Mabon is Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University

Introduction
1 The Politics of Sovereignty and Space
2 Letters and Declarations
3 Ink on Paper
4 The dawla and the umma
5 Building Beirut, Transforming Jerusalem and Breaking Basra
6 The People Want the Fall of the Regime
7 The Regime Fights Back
8 Houses Built on Sand
Conclusions: The End of the Dream
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