The Arab Uprisings and the political trajectories of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

Description

The political trajectories of the countries of the Maghreb have been more or less modified by the events of the Arab uprisings depending on the forms of legitimacy used by the regimes to survive over time. Different articulations of political cooptation, repression and patron-clients relations have emerged over time and they have been reshaped by the recent protests movements and their fallout, either marginally (Algeria), partially (Morocco) or fundamentally (Tunisia).

Frédéric Volpi is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations of the University of Saint Andrews. He is editor of the journal Mediterranean Politics and a board member of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work broadly engages questions of democratisation, political Islam and contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa.