New Wave of Democratization: The Case of Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

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10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Arab spring; democratization, democratic transition, new social media

Abstract

In recent years, the world has witnessed a dramatic change in Middle Eastern political landscape with the collapse of several long-serving dictators from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya. They were the former presidents of these countries who, in the unfolding of history, had been ousted by their own people from a massive revolution known as the Arab Spring. This event has raised a question among political scientists; whether it is a sign of the coming wave or the new wave of democratization. Therefore, this dissertation aims to identify the extent of the correlation between the countries involved in the Arab Spring, specifically the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, with the new wave of democratization. By revisiting the previous wave of democratization, this article will view closely the extent to which the factors that contributed to the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution and the Egyptian 25 January Revolution could serve as the new wave of democratization..

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin
AU  - Wan Kamal Mujani
AU  - Azyati Azhani Mazuki
PY  - 2014/08
DA  - 2014/08
TI  - New Wave of Democratization: The Case of Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advanced ICT (ICAICTE 2014)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 168
EP  - 170
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36
DO  - 10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36
ID  - IrwanSyazliSaidin2014/08
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