After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa Mako Shamiran
After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa Mako Shamiran Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick…
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After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa Mako Shamiran
Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation? After the Arab Uprisings offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions, based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society, gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence. Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did region-wide democratization not occur?
Moghadam and Shamiran Mako highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces, uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of external intervention, as key elements in explaining Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M.