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The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia ...
Tunisia’s peripheral cities: Marginalization and protest politics in a democratizing country
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Middle East Institute
, 2021 , Article)
This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons ...
Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization'
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Intellect Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases ...
Media-ting democratic literacies
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Intellect Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
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Re-visioning Germany's democracy promotion in the Arab World
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
, 2022 , Article)
This article briefly investigates German democracy promotion in the Arab world since the 2011 popular uprisings and revolutions. It seeks a parsimonious discourse analysis, looking at Germany's "democracy-promotion speak" ...
Rethinking unsustainability in Tunisia's sustainable development
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
, 2020 , Article)
This article problematises sustainable development in Tunisia through the lens of regional (under)development. Decades of accumulated imbalances between the country's coastal (Sahel) and southern/interior regions stand as ...
Libya's Arab spring: The long road from revolution to democracy
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SAGE
, 2012 , Article)
This article presents a critical account of Libya's incipient democratization, contextualizing it within the Arab Spring élan. This first line of inquiry is twofold: it critically assesses the meaning of democratization ...
‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf
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Springer Nature
, 2021 , Article)
How do IR scholars ‘write’ the Arab Gulf? In attempting to address this question, the focus is twofold: first, the ‘small state’ as a construct and second, its application to the study of Gulf small states. The article ...
The GCC in Crisis: Explorations of ‘Normlessness’ in Gulf Regionalism
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
In a field that is so loosely theorised, an investigation into intra-GCC conflict is both apposite and challenging. Empirically, interventions by Gulf states have proliferated across the GCC and MENA since 2011. This Special ...
Regionalism in Crisis: GCC Integration without Democracy
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
At the core of “disembedded regionalism” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is an incapacity to foster more representative forms of politics that are responsive to citizens. Instead, elite-to-elite relations are a salient ...