After the Arab Uprisings
Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa

Provides a holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests.

Shamiran Mako (Author), Valentine M. Moghadam (Author)

9781108429832, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 22 July 2021

264 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.59 kg

'a bracing assessment of revolution, repression, and war … The book stands to inform a broad range of academics and nonspecialists seeking to understand how the Arab world has changed - sometimes for better, often for worse - and where the region is headed.' Jason M. Brownlee, The Middle East Journal

Why were some, but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime change, democracy, and social transformation? Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia, and why did region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions, based on four key themes: state and regime type, civil society, gender relations and women's mobilizations, and external influence. Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces, uniquely presenting women's legal status, social positions, and organizational capacity, along with the presence or absence of external intervention, as key elements in explaining the divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings, and extending the analysis to the present day.

1. Introduction and Overview
2. Pathways to Democratization: The Arab Spring in Comparative Perspective
3. States and Political Institutions
4. Civil Society
5. Gender and Women's Mobilizations
6. International Connections and Interventions
7. Findings and Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Revolutionary groups & movements [JPWQ], Demonstrations & protest movements [JPWF], Political structures: democracy [JPHV], Comparative politics [JPB]