Post-Arab Spring: changes and challenges

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 111-129

  Salamey, Imad ^a  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; communalism; democratisation; Egyptian politics; globalisation; governance; Middle East politics; Tunisian politics

Indexed keywords

ARAB WORLD; AUTHORITARIANISM; DEMOCRATIZATION; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; GLOBALIZATION; LIBERALIZATION; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POPULAR PROTEST;

EGYPT; MIDDLE EAST; TUNISIA;

EID: 84921815008     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.976025     Document Type: Article

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