Ayfer Erdogan

Arab Spring-Arab Fall (eBook, PDF)

Divergent Transitions in post-2011 Tunisia and Egypt

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The popular protests in early 2011 were once seen as a turning point in the history of the Arab world, raising hopes for democracy, freedom, and justice in the Middle East. A decade after the uprisings, these hopes are largely dashed in each country swept by popular protests with the exception of Tunisia. Tunisia became the only democracy in the entire region while Egypt saw its first freely elected president and government thrown out by the army in a bloody coup which resulted in a regime that is no less authoritarian than Mubarak's. This book provides a detailed analysis of the political, economic, and constitutional developments in Tunisia and Egypt. In the light of the existing literature on comparative democratization, the author explores why Egypt's path to democratization was eroded by several transitional actors while Tunisian political elite managed to move the country towards democracy. The book centers its focus on the role of the political agents in designing the transition and explores the transitional period with respect to the interactions among the political elite and their cost-benefit assumptions, ideological interests, as well as their commitment to democratic processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978789845
• Artikelnr.: 74842992

Autorenporträt

Ayfer Erdogan is Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul. Her research focuses on Third Wave of Democratization, Authoritarianism, Mass Movements, Civil Society and the Middle East Politics. She has published widely on Democratic Transitions, Arab Spring, Turkish Foreign Policy, Islamist Movements/ Parties and contemporary issues surrounding the Middle East Politics. She is the author of Arab Spring-Arab Fall: Divergent Transitions of Tunisia and Egypt post Arab-Spring.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I: On Democracy and Democratic Transitions
Chapter II: Democratization in the Arab Middle East Context
Chapter III: Tunisian Revolution
Chapter IV: Egypt's Failed Revolution
Chapter V: Democratic Divergence between Egypt and Tunisia in the Post-Arab
Spring Context