State-Society Relations after the Arab Spring: New Rulers, Same Rules
Sarah Yerkes* | 29 May 2012
The Arab Spring has brought into question long-held assumptions about the nature of state-society relations in the Arab world. During the protests and uprisings of 2011, regimes that were once thought to be invincible were taken down by the very societies to which they had become impenetrable. Sparked by the courageous act of one man, as in Tunisia, vocally...Trojan Horse at the Gate?: Political Islamists & Democratization in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Luciana Storelli – Castro* | 29 May 2012
Egyptian Presidential candidate and moderate Islamist, Abdel Moein Aboul Fotouh (Photo credit: Khalil Hamra/AP) Democratic regimes mushroomed under the “third wave”[i] of democratization, as authoritarian...
