Socio-political order and security in the Arab world: from regime security to public security

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Redefining the Concept of Security -- Why This Book? -- The Book's Outline -- Notes -- Chapter 2: A New Approach to Conceptualizing Security in the Arab World -- The Social Contract: Providing Security as a Public Good -- Defining the Public Sphere -- Conceptualizing Patron-Protégé Relations in Islamic Political Thought -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Patron-Protégé Relations Under the Old Regime -- Patron-Protégé Relations in the Arab World -- Egypt -- Syria -- Libya -- Tunisia -- Bahrain -- Yemen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Traditional Civil-Security Sector Relations in the Arab World -- Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Public, Patron and Security Sector -- Means of Privatizing the Statutory Security Sector -- Structural Means of Privatization of the Security Sector -- Diversification of the Security Sector -- Centralization of Command Structures -- Constant Rotation of Stakeholders -- Coercive Means of Privatizing the Security Sector -- Commissarism -- Accommodative Means of Privatizing the Security Sector -- Favouritism -- Types of Security Sectors -- Personalized Security Sectors -- Sectarian Security Sectors -- Profiteering Security Sectors -- Praetorian Security Sectors -- Fractured Security Sectors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Arab Public Sphere: Challenging the Old Regime -- Civil Society and the Regime -- New Media and the Rise of the Arab Public Sphere -- The Arab Public Sphere and the Arab Spring -- The Mobilization of the Masses -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Public Dissidence, the Security Sector and Regime Resilience -- Dissidence, Repression and Its Impact on Regime Resilience -- The Escalatory Spiral of Dissidence, Response and Regime Resilience Since 2011 -- The Initial Spark -- Protest and Repression