A Modest Transformation: Political Change in the Arab World after the “Arab Spring”

Bellin, Eva

doi:10.1057/9781137344045_3

Eva Bellin⁴

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2011 was an extraordinarily eventful year in the world of Arab politics. Unprecedented levels of mass protest shook the foundations of authoritarian regimes across the region. The fall of three long-entrenched dictators in relatively quick succession¹ fueled expectations that a regionwide domino effect might be in the making and that authoritarianism’s grip on the region might finally be pried open. The hope was that that the Arab world would, at last, catch the third wave of democratization, an ambition that had long eluded this part of the world.

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Brandeis University, USA
Eva Bellin (Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics in the Department of Politics and the Crown Center for Middle East Studies)

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American University, Cairo, Egypt
Clement Henry (Chair of the Political Science Department, Emeritus Professor) (Chair of the Political Science Department, Emeritus Professor)
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Clement Henry (Chair of the Political Science Department, Emeritus Professor) (Chair of the Political Science Department, Emeritus Professor)
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Bellin, E. (2012). A Modest Transformation: Political Change in the Arab World after the “Arab Spring”. In: Henry, C., Ji-Hyang, J. (eds) The Arab Spring. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344045_3

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