Protest and Mass Mobilization: Authoritarian Collapse and Political Change in North Africa

ISBN-13: 9781472459305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 168 str.

Asst. Prof. Merouan Mekouar

Opis

Using the cases of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, this book provides a unique dialectical picture of mobilization in North Africa by focusing both on the perspective of those who mobilized against their local regimes and members of the security forces who were responsible for stopping them.

Spis treści

1 Introduction 2 Tunsia’s Intermediate Actors: Bridging the Popular Divide and Making the Revolution 3 Libya’s Revolution: How Qaddafi’s Friends Made the Revolution.4 Algeria: Social Mobilization Routinized 5 Morocco’s Aborted Social Mobilization: All Behind the King 6 The Media in the Arab Spring 7 Conclusion

O autorze

Merouan Mekouar is a political scientist and professor of International Development Studies at York University and a senior fellow at the inter-university consortium of Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at McGill University. He works on social movements and authoritarian collapse in North Africa and the Middle East.