Post-Arab Spring: changes and challenges |
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Authors: | Imad Salamey |
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Affiliation: | 1. Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanonimad.salamey@lau.edu.lb |
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Abstract: | This paper advances the proposition that post-Arab Spring politics are a product of globalisation’s economic and social liberalisation. The global market and privatisation have fundamentally deconstructed centralised autocratic rule over state and society, while facilitating corruption and selective development, culminating in public outrage. The political order of the Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Spring synthesises globalisation’s dialectic duality, in which economic integration has contributed to the demise of national authoritarianism, inciting communalism and political fragmentation. This paper analyses emerging political trends and challenges based on a comparative analysis of Egypt and Tunisia. |
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Keywords: | Egyptian politics Tunisian politics Middle East politics Arab Spring democratisation governance communalism globalisation |
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