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"This book is a crucial intervention in the current debates about the Arab uprisings and their aftermath." Rima Majed, from the American University of Beirut

In this book, Jamie, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable and argue that these ‘failed revolutions’ would be better understood as a ‘series of successful counter-revolutions'.

His book is now out with Cambridge University Press and offers an insight into the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, and how these revolutionary situations were overturned by counter-revolutions.

It reveals how counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to the decade of global protest that followed them, the book demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered it near impossible to implement political change without first enacting fundamental social transformation.

Reviews for the book include:

Professor George Lawson in International Relations at the Australian National University said: “The Age of Counter-Revolution provides the most perceptive insights into counter-revolution since the work of Arno Mayer some 50 years ago.”

Mandy Turner, University of Manchester said: “This is historical sociology at its very best. Allinson utilises Marxist concepts to offer us a theoretically rich, forensic investigation of the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen. “