Starting in tunisia and spreading quickly to egypt, bahrain, yemen, libya, syria and beyond, a wave of political protest, unprecedented in scope and ambition, swept the region. Comparative politics and international relations of the middle east. Lessons of the arab spring, comparative politics, 44 2 2012. Primarily, one should overcome conceptual or definitional problems which blurred. Democracy, authoritarianism and regime change in the arab world. Authoritarian stability through perpetual democratisation iai. Robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east, in comparative politics 36. Middle east and north africa is not why democracy has failed to consolidate in this region failure would be expected but rather why the vast majority of middle. Democracy, authoritarianism and regime change in the arab. Name institution course instructor date the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east bellin wrote an article describing the causes that have prevented the middle studentshare our website is a unique platform where students can share their papers in a matter of giving an example of the work to be done. Lessons from the arab spring the events of the arab. Authoritarianism in the middle east addresses this question, focusing on the role of political institutions and the strategic choices made by both rulers and opposition challengers. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east lessons from the arab spring eva bellin the arab spring has proven astonishing and exhilarating to middle east analysts and activists alike.
Starting in tunisia and spreading quickly to egypt, bahrain, yemen, libya, syria and beyond, a wave of political protest, unprecedented in scope and ambition. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics, vol. Repression, cooptation, and movement fragmentation in. Evidence from the youth movement in egypt show all authors. The robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east, bellin, 2004. Ellen lustokar, lisa anderson, steve heydemann and mark tessler, comparative politics of the middle east and academic freedom, apsacp newsletter.
Explanations of the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east and north africa have focused on absent prerequisites of democratization in the region, including weak civil society, state. Repression, cooptation, and movement fragmentation in authoritarian regimes. Starting in tunisia and spreading quickly to egypt, bahrain, yemen. Feb 09, 2018 there are different taxonomies of cultures, each proposed by a different thinker, and not neccessarily these classifications should contradict each other. Reconsidering durability of authoritarian regime and possibilities of democratization in tunisia yaar, nebahat msc. Exceptionalism in comparative perspective, comparative politics, 36 2 2004.
A few years earlier, in 2004, eva bellin had written an article entitled. The authors eschew cultural explanations, highlighting instead the importance of robust coercive apparatuses in the region and the context of incumbentopposition. Eva bellin, reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east, comparative politics 44 2012. Anatomy of authoritarianism in the arab republics by joseph. Massachusetts institute of technology political science. Lessons from the arab spring the events of the arab spring have suggested the necessity of rethinking the logic. Lessons from the arab spring in comparative politics, 44, 2, january 2012, p. Bellin reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism. Explanations of the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east and north africa have focused on absent prerequisites of democratization in. Debating the dynamics and durability of nondemocratic. Through an effective historical analysis of the interplay of socioeconomic development, ideology and institutional structures, pratt explores how the space for political action across the arab world has been defined. Thus, the solution to the puzzle of middle eastern and north african exceptional ism lies less in absent prerequisites of democratization and more in present condi tions that foster robust authoritarianism, specifically a robust coercive apparatus in these states. While sectarianism figures prominently in this debate. F august 16 the future of authoritarianism brooker, the future of nondemocratic regimes, pp.
The robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east essay. Assad regime resilience during the syrian civil war an. Nyu dc polua 9540001 dc1 politics of the near and middle east. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle. The ethics of research in the middle east, pomeps studies 8, 2 july 2014. The robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east. Anatomy of authoritarianism in the arab republics by. Middle east centre public lecture democracy, authoritarianism and regime change in the arab world professor lisa anderson provost, american university in cairo london school of economics and political science wednesday july 2011 check against delivery for decadescertainly since the fall of the berlin wall, and for some among the older of. Barany, unrest and state response in arab monarchies see note 5 above, 6. There are different taxonomies of cultures, each proposed by a different thinker, and not neccessarily these classifications should contradict each other.
Why does authoritarianism tend to persist in the middle east. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics 44 2. Students will write one journal entry of 350500 words on the readings assigned for october 10, 12, 14, and 15. Bellin reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in. Pdf reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the. Conclusion 1 introduction about the author 2 summary for the text and its main arguments the thesis and the main. Eva bellin, the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east.
Request pdf reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east. Authoritarianism and protest politics in the middle east. Citeulike uses cookies, some recpnsidering which may already have been set. However eva bellins paper the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east argues that none of those factors seem to adequately explain the situation in the middle east, especially in light of the relative success of democracy in places like subsaharan africa. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics january. Meliha altunk july 2014, 146 pages this thesis analyzes the variables that have impacts on durability and stability of the. Exceptionalism in comparative perspective, comparative politics, 36 2, pp. Her 2012 paper reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east is a thoughtful reprise of her earlier views. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the. Lessons from the arab spring the events of the arab spring. Attend every class meeting and participate in discussion. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics january 2012.
Jul, 2011 middle east centre public lecture democracy, authoritarianism and regime change in the arab world professor lisa anderson provost, american university in cairo london school of economics and political science wednesday july 2011 check against delivery. Bellin, the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east. Cambridge core middle east studies anatomy of authoritarianism in the arab republics by joseph sassoon due to high volumes of traffic at this time we are experiencing some slowness on the site. Comparative politics and international relations of the. Bellin, e 2012 reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east. I believe they are all explaining the same phenomenon from a different angle or just measuri. Programs in political science, city university of new york stable url. The arab spring has proven astonishing and exhilarating to middle east analysts and activists alike. Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics 442. First, the article briefly surveys how the arab uprisings have influenced debates on arab authoritarianism and identity politics in the middle east regarding a new and darker form of authoritarianism drawing on exclusionary and xenophobic forms of identity politics. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east lessons learned from the arab spring by eva bellin 2012 outline. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east lessons from the arab spring eva bellin valeriia gladkaia, uco 454490. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east.
The robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east scholars at. Fall of the autocrats in 2011 has questioned the mythical paradigm of persistent authoritarianism in the middle east. Lessons from the arab spring, in comparative politics. This is the most sophisticated and powerful interrogation of the function of civil society in the arab world available today. Democracy and authoritarianism in the middle east 22 dec 2009 introduction over the past few decades and especially at the turn of the century, there has been a flurry of reforms proposed and passed by governments in the middle east, seeking to of modernization, as well as promising progress towards a more democratic, politicallyopen society. Politics of knowledge in middle east political science. Reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in.
Lessons from the arab spring, comparative politics 44. Assad regime resilience during the syrian civil war an historical perspective social studies unit. Schooling, economic opportunities, and the arab spring, journal of economic perspectives. Bellin, reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east.
Democratic transitions in the arab world edited by ibrahim. Her 2012 paper reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east is a thoughtful reprise of. Readings comparative politics and international relations. The roots of authoritarianism in the middle east springerlink. Bellin, eva, reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism in the middle east. A theory of distorted change in arab society oxford university press, 1992. Bellin, reconsidering the robustness of authoritarianism. Springborg 1990 politics in the middle east, 3rd edn. Starting in tunisia and spreading quickly to egypt, bahrain. Exceptionalism in comparative perspective, comparative politics, vol. Sara plana secondyear paper 4 proximately tasked with firing on civilians, however, these arguments narrowly explain when a military officer would pass along an order instead of why a soldier would carry out the order. Thus, authoritarianism has proven exceptionally robust in the middle east and.
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