State-Society Relations After the Arab Spring: New Rulers, Same Rules

by Sarah Yerkes

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…