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Title Revolutions and the Arab Spring: a comparative analysis between Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya
Full text http://scripties.let.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/Master/DoorstroomMasters/InternationaleBetrek/2015/LayebS.Soraya/
Date 2015
Author(s) Layeb, S. (Soraya)
Abstract In December 2010 street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of a local governor's office in Central Tunisia out of protest to the authorities who had confiscated his merchandise. Massive protests broke loose against the regime of President Ben Ali, which soon after fell. Subsequently, anti-government demonstrations spread like wildfire throughout the Arab World. After Ben Ali's regime, Mubarak fell in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya, and Bin Saleh in Yemen. Furthermore, heavy political turmoil is plaguing other Arab and Middle Eastern states like Syria, and Algeria. These unique events provide us with an opportunity to revisit theories on revolutions and their applicability to the revolutionary situations in the Arab World. How and why did these revolutionary situations come about? I make a comparative analysis between the revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia to answer the follow question: To what extent can the revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya which occurred in 2010 and 2011 be explained by structural vulnerabilities on the state-level, for example weaknesses in personalist authoritarian regimes, economic contradictions, and external pressures?
Language en
Repository Groningen - University of Groningen
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