XX PREFACE some promise: there is something unique and special about Tunisia that is
missing in the rest of the Arab world, to which Tunisia both belongs and does not. My story …

In this article, we challenge existing analyses of military behaviour during the Arab uprisings.
Egypt and Tunisia are often presented as cases where the military formed an explicit or …

THE ARAB UPRISINGS OF 2011–2012—popular protests that challenged authoritarian rule
across the Middle East and North Africa—took the world by surprise. The possibility that the …

Unlike other political leaders, leaders coming to power through military coups face a dual
legitimation challenge: they must justify not only why they should rule but also how they …

Is power-sharing an effective way for endangered transitional democracies to reduce
political tensions and improve government performance? We provide one of the first …

92 from winning straightforward parliamentary majorities. 5 Tunisia's Islamists, too, adopted
a more farsighted, self-restrained approach to power than Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. 6 …

The 2011 uprisings in the Arab World have triggered a wave of constitution writing. Some
states amended their Constitution while others decided to put a new one in place. In North …

Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali came to power in the 1980s and served as the"
authoritarian" leaders of Egypt and Tunisia until 2011. For almost three decades, Tunisia …

Investigating the current state of political currents after the Arab revolutions, especially in
Tunisia, is one of the multifaceted, complex, and multi-layered issues in political studies …

Authoritarianism has prevailed and the “democracy gap” persisted over the past century
throughout the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Despite persistence of …