Class, State, and Counter-Revolution The Fascist Seizure of Power in Italy, 1919--1922

Elazar, Dahlia Sabina

doi:10.1093/esr/16.3.301

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“…With the exception of a few works that engage with the concept itself, most studies on counter‐revolution present the ‘counter‐revolutionary’ as the ‘counter‐revolution’: that is, they refer to pre‐determined counter‐revolutionary groups or events to explain revolutionary failure, without any prior conceptualization of counter‐revolution (see e.g. Bush 2002; Elazar 2000; Fairbank 1949; and more recently, on the Arab Spring, see among others Bishara 2013; Falk 2016; Hatem 2013; Selim 2015; Riphagen and Woltering 2018). This is a symptom of studies of post‐colonial politics that describe dictatorships, conservative/reactionary groups (such as sectarian, ethnic or religious parties), or events (e.g.…”

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Consociational Power‐Sharing in the Arab World as Counter‐Revolution

Halawi

2020

Studies Ethnicity & National

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This paper argues that consociational power-sharing in the Arab world is intrinsically counter-revolutionary. The academic debate on consociational power-sharing has largely overlooked this because 1) it presupposes class inequalities and overemphasizes state stability; and 2) it is limited by a broader misunderstanding of counter-revolution, in which the concept is reduced to momentary reactions to revolution. By critiquing class and state assumptions in the consociational power-sharing literature and presenting a nuanced conceptualization of counter-revolution, this paper seeks to bring the debate closer to the concurrent revolutionary episodes against the consociational arrangements of Lebanon and Iraq, and to inspire more inclusionary state-(re)building arrangements in the Arab world. * Ibrahim Halawi is a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on theorizing the concept of counter-revolution and examining its manifestation in the contemporary Middle East. His doctoral thesis lays out a history of counter-revolution and revolution in Egypt not as separable, televised events, but as processes that are continuous, evolving, and interrelated. During the pursuit of his PhD, Ibrahim worked as an Opinion Editor for The New Arab and published several op-eds and book reviews with E-IR, OpenDemocracy, and Middle East Eye, among others. Prior to that, he co-founded a pluralistic student movement in Beirut. He also founded a student-led non-sectarian newspaper aimed at de-hegemonizing sectarian news.

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confidence: 99%