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Understanding regime divergence in the post‐uprising Arab states
Author(s) -
Hinnebusch Raymond
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12190
Subject(s) - authoritarianism , divergence (linguistics) , democracy , political science , political economy , middle east , development economics , sociology , law , politics , economics , philosophy , linguistics
Despite the fact that democracy was a main demand of the protestors who spearheaded the Arab uprisings, five years later only Tunisia qualifies as democratic while elsewhere the outcomes have been either authoritarian restoration or failing states. This paper seeks to understand these three divergent trajectories in the post‐uprising Arab states, with Tunisia, Egypt and Syria taken as representative of each.