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Launch of the book Arab Society in Revolt
From October 05, 2012 until October 17, 2012
On Wednesday October 17th, Casa Árabe and the Elcano Royal Institute presented in Madrid the book Arab Society in Revolt, co-edited by Cesare Merlini and Oliver Roy.
The launching, which took place at the Casa Árabe’s Auditorium (c/ Alcalá, 62) at 19:30, was introduced by Eduardo López Busquets, director general of Casa Árabe. Cesare Merlini, co-editor of the book and member of Brookings Institution, Gonzalo Escribano, author of one of the chapters of the book and head of the Energy Programme of the Elcano Royal Institute and Haizam Amirah Fernández, senior researcher of the Mediterranean and Arab World at the Elcano Royal Institute, did also participate in this event.
The Arab Spring of 2011 will be remembered as a period of great changes for the Arab countries of the North of Africa and of the East Mediterranean. These countries are facing deep changes in society, culture and religion. Both the European Union and the United States, surprised by these uprisings, must redefine their positions on these issues. Arab Society in Revolt explains and interprets the changes taking place in the Arab and Muslim world, its consequences for today’s international relations and the political options to deal with this new reality.
Cesare Merlini
He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council of the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His fields of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration, nuclear non-proliferation and, recently, the impact of social change on international relations. He is co-editor, together with Olivier Roy, of the book Arab Society in Revolt. The West’s Mediterranean Challenge, Brookings Press, Washington DC, 2012.
Gonzalo Escribano
He is senior analyst for Energy at the Elcano Royal Institute of International Relations, and full professor of Political Economy at the Department of Applied Economics of the Spanish National University of Distance Learning (UNED). He has been a visiting fellow at the Florida State University and at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His main fields of research are economic policy in the Arab world and Euro-Mediterranean relations, as well as international energy issues. He is the author of the chapter “Modern commercial and social entrepreneurship as a factor of change” in the book Arab Society in Revolt. The West’s Mediterranean Challenge.
The Arab Spring of 2011 will be remembered as a period of great changes for the Arab countries of the North of Africa and of the East Mediterranean. These countries are facing deep changes in society, culture and religion. Both the European Union and the United States, surprised by these uprisings, must redefine their positions on these issues. Arab Society in Revolt explains and interprets the changes taking place in the Arab and Muslim world, its consequences for today’s international relations and the political options to deal with this new reality.
Cesare Merlini
He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Italian Institute of International Affairs and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He also occupied the position of executive vice chairman of the Council of the United States and Italy, which he co-founded in 1983. His fields of expertise include transatlantic relations, European integration, nuclear non-proliferation and, recently, the impact of social change on international relations. He is co-editor, together with Olivier Roy, of the book Arab Society in Revolt. The West’s Mediterranean Challenge, Brookings Press, Washington DC, 2012.
Gonzalo Escribano
He is senior analyst for Energy at the Elcano Royal Institute of International Relations, and full professor of Political Economy at the Department of Applied Economics of the Spanish National University of Distance Learning (UNED). He has been a visiting fellow at the Florida State University and at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His main fields of research are economic policy in the Arab world and Euro-Mediterranean relations, as well as international energy issues. He is the author of the chapter “Modern commercial and social entrepreneurship as a factor of change” in the book Arab Society in Revolt. The West’s Mediterranean Challenge.
