This book examines the connection between socio-politics and security in the Arab World. In an
effort to understand the social and political developments that have been on-going in the Arab
World since the 1990s culminating in the Arab Spring Krieg moves beyond liberal deterministic
assumptions - most notably that the promotion of liberal values and democracy are the panacea
for the structural problems of the region. Instead this text advances the case that grievances
related to individual security needs are at the heart of regional insecurity and instability.
Looking towards the future the author asserts that regimes can only be resilient if they are
able to provide for individual security inclusively. When regimes fail to cater for public
security they might be replaced by alternative non-state security providers.
