{"title":"The arab spring and the involvement of external actors in democratization processes","authors":"S. Negri","doi":"10.17450/150214","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 2011, more than two decades after the momentous events that swept across Eastern Europe, a massive popular revolution against authoritarian regimes, ignited by the protests erupted in Tunisia in December 2010, put down roots throughout the Middle East and North Africa – from Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Morocco to Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan – and brought democratization processes back under the spotlight of the international community. This major movement towards democracy in the Arab world, known as the ‘Arab Spring’, marked a new wave of popular quest for pro-democratic changes in State governance that revitalized the “global democratic revolution”, heralded at the beginning of the Nineties as the “the most profound event of the twentieth century and,","PeriodicalId":17409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of The Saudi Pharmaceutical Society","volume":"21 1","pages":"221-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of The Saudi Pharmaceutical Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17450/150214","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 2011, more than two decades after the momentous events that swept across Eastern Europe, a massive popular revolution against authoritarian regimes, ignited by the protests erupted in Tunisia in December 2010, put down roots throughout the Middle East and North Africa – from Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Morocco to Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and Jordan – and brought democratization processes back under the spotlight of the international community. This major movement towards democracy in the Arab world, known as the ‘Arab Spring’, marked a new wave of popular quest for pro-democratic changes in State governance that revitalized the “global democratic revolution”, heralded at the beginning of the Nineties as the “the most profound event of the twentieth century and,