Chaos and counterrevolution : after the Arab Spring / Richard Falk.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. Regional perspectives. Can humanitarian intervention ever be humanitarian? -- Global revolution after Tahrir Square -- The polarization of immature democracies -- Certain forms of polarization doom democracy -- Two forms of lethal polarization.

Part 2. Egypt. Egypt's transformative moment: revolution, counterrevolution, or reform -- The toxic residues of colonialism: protecting interests, disregarding rights -- What is winning? The next phase for revolutionary uprisings -- When is an NGO not an NGO? Twists and turns in the Cairo sky -- Egypt between a rock and a hard place -- Extreme polarization and genocidal politics -- Acute islamophobia in Egypt.

Part 3. Libya. Will we ever learn? Kicking the intervention habit -- A critical postscript to "will we ever learn?" Contra intervention -- Qaddafi, moral interventionism, Libya, and the Arab revolutionary movement -- Obama's Libyan folly: to be or not to be -- The International Criminal Court plays politics? The Qaddafi arrest warrants -- Libya after Muammar Qaddafi's execution -- Post-intervention Libya: a militia state.

Part 4. Syria. Geopolitical mentoring versus rehab for addicted geopolitical leaders -- Tragedy and impotence -- Killing and dying: persisting Syrian dilemmas -- The wrong "red line" -- Contra attacking Syria -- Questioning Obamacare for Syria -- Resolving the Syrian chemical-weapons crisis: sunlight and shadows -- Syria: what to do now -- The obsolescence of ideology: debating Syria and Ukraine -- Prosecuting Syrians for war crimes now.

Part 5. Turkey. Ahmet Davutoğlu: Turkey's foreign minister -- Interpreting the AKP victory in Turkey (with Hilal Elver) -- Turkey, the region, and the west (with Hilal Elver) -- Turkey's foreign policy: zero problems with neighbors revisited -- Ten years of AKP leadership in Turkey -- Whither Turkey: first thoughts after Gezi Park -- Imperiled polities: Egypt and Turkey -- Armenian grievances, Turkey, the United States, and 1915.

Part 6. Iran. Confronting Iran: warmongering int the Middles East -- Toward a Middle East nuclear-weapons-free zone -- Kenneth Waltz's risky "modest proposal" -- Was it wrong to support the Iranian Revolution? -- Getting the law and politics right in Iran.

Part 7. Iraq. Occupying Iraq and higher education: the Ghent Charter -- The Iraq War: 10 years later -- ISIS, militarism, and the violent political imagination. Appendix: The Ghent Carter in defense of Iraqi academia.

Brings together Falk's collected writings on the uprisings and their aftermath across the region. Through essays whose subjects range from the Syrian civil war and the emergence of ISIS to the coup in Egypt and the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, Falk explores how and why the Arab Spring has drifted so far from its original goals, and demonstrates how the West has exacerbated the problem through inept and counterproductive interventionism. --From publisher description.