Does Military Support for Democratic Uprisings Help Democratization?
Many scholars and observers have pointed to the presence or absence of military defections to explain the disparate outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings. In...
Kara Kingma Neu is a PhD candidate in International Studies at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. She graduated summa cum laude from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 2010 with a B.A. in Government/International Affairs. She earned her M.A. in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School in 2012, where her research focused on democratic transitions in states divided along racial, ethnic, and religious lines. Her studies also focused more generally on the Middle East.