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Arab Spring
Tripathi looks at how America’s policy of democracy promotion triggered the Arab Spring protest movements from Tunisia, spreading through the Arab...
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Defense against small parties: electoral reforms and their impact on Tunisia’s electoral system since the Arab Spring
Tunisia’s political system suffers from recurrent problems with governability and proportionality. A volatile party landscape, frequent cabinet...
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Global Echo of the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring acted as a trigger for a global wave of socio-political destabilization that significantly exceeded the scale of the Arab Spring...
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Power-Sharing Processes in Post-Arab Spring Tunisia: From Elite Compromise to Presidential Monopolization
In the context of the so-called Arab Spring, Tunisia is the only Arab country to have undergone a formal democratic transition since 2010/2011. Such...
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The Arab Spring. A Quantitative Analysis
Research by A. Korotayev et al. finds that the most significant factors that tended to increase the scale of sociopolitical destabilization during...
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The Arab Spring: Causes, Conditions, and Driving Forces
This chapter offers an analysis of conditions in the MENA countries on the eve of the Arab Spring wave of revolutions from the World System...
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The Arab Spring in Yemen
The Arab Spring did not bypass Yemen. As became clear later on, it triggered a chain of events leading to cardinal changes in the country’s destiny....
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Non-Democratic Legitimacy During the Arab Spring Defending Dictatorship
This book analyzes non-democratic legitimacy during the Arab Spring. During this historic event, monarchs and presidents were forced to defend their...
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The Media and US Foreign Policy in the MENA Area: From the War on Terror to the Arab Spring
This chapter examines the impact of US media on US foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa from the inception of the war on terror to the...
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A Decade of Conflict Management Processes in Libya Since the Arab Spring: Taking Stock
The so-called “Arab Spring” of 2010/11 left many countries in Africa and beyond generally unstable and floundering in a state of collapse, civil war...
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The Speeches Defending Dictatorship During the Arab Spring
Chapter 4 contains the discourse analysis of speeches given by the leaderships of each case study in response to the Arab Spring. Using Searle’s...
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Turkish power contestation with the United Arab Emirates: an empirical assessment of official development assistance
Turkey's post-Arab Spring regional rivalry with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) influences the allocation of its Official Development Assistance...
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A Historical Overview of MENA Politics Leading Up to the Arab Spring
This chapter opens with the author’s experience of religion and politics in the Middle East to link religion with the key theories relevant to this...
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Ten Years After the Arab Spring. Engagement vs. Disengagement in US Policy to the Middle East
The chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the shifting dynamics of US policy in the Middle East since 2021. The contrast between a reduction...
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The Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia and the Birth of the Arab Spring Uprisings
This chapter analyses the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia of 2010–2011 which gave birth to internal and external causes of this revolution, its...
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Egypt: Arab Spring, Regime Crisis and the Proliferation of Small Arms
The Arab Spring which expressed itself in January 2011 has far-reaching implications for the sociopolitical order in several countries of the Maghreb...
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Introduction: Social Accountability and Civic Innovation in the Arab World
The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to...
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Israel’s Arab Neighbors: Toward the Normalization of Relations
This chapter aims to describe the evolution of Arab-Israeli relations from 1948 until 2020, with a particular emphasis on the post-Arab Spring...
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United Arab Emirates
Archaeological evidence indicates that in the 3rd millennium BC a culture known as Umm al-Nar developed in modern-day Abu Dhabi. There was trade with...