Dreams Deferred; Co-opting the Mideast Revolts
A dream haunts the people of the Middle East. Since the decline of the Ottoman Empire, this dream has motivated movements seeking collective dignity, whether...
May 29th, 2012 
Yousef K. BakerA Turkish Model for the Arab Spring?
The uprisings of 2011 have transformed the Arab world. Long-standing regimes – such as those in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya – have fallen or been radically...
May 29th, 2012 State-Society Relations after the Arab Spring: New Rulers, Same Rules
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...
May 29th, 2012 Stagnated Competition in Egypt’s People’s Assembly
On January 23, 2012, the lower house of Egypt’s Parliament, the People’s Assembly, came into session. It was the first Parliament since the revolution...
May 29th, 2012 Civil Society and Democratization in Egypt: The Road Not Yet Traveled
In December 2011, the State Security apparatus cracked down on civil society institutions, mainly human rights organizations and international foundations,...
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