Essays on Arab Spring

The Arab Spring was a democratic uprising that started in Tunisia and spread among a group of Middle Eastern countries. The Arab Spring was a result of frustration and failure throughout the Middle East. The Arab Spring was born out of a “broad set of ideas and grievances that are motivating” change (Jones). As Jones states, “the Arab world underperforms all other regions of the world on virtually all social, political, and economic indices, and has done for many years” (Jones). Jones then ...

Revolutions have introduced about a number of the most radical differences in international records and politics over the course of the world history, over the past decade, numerous regimes have fallen and risen. The Arab world has had an ongoing reputation of dictators. Mohammed Bouazizi, a street vendor, lit himself on fire because the Tunisian government confiscated his cart, thus started the series of revolutions known as the Arab Spring. The leading foundations of the Arab Spring can be ...

The Middle East has been the crucible of conflict for over a decade with numerous revolutions and civil wars occur in places such as Egypt, Syria, Tunisia the West Bank, Jordan and Bahrain. For the purposes of this essay, I will examine the causes of what some would refer to as the "historic turning point in human history" (Wright 2017) of Middle Eastern polity, society and democracy; the Arab Spring. The term ‘Arab Spring' encapsulates the revolutionary wave of both violent and non-violent ...

The Arab Springs was a major movement that played a big role in the change of government in the Arab Countries. The Arab countries resented the dictatorship they were under. The Government was raising prices, causing unemployment, and there was corruption within. This uprising was starting at the time of the leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. This time period became known as "The Year of Revolution". This revolution began when one man was humiliated by a policewoman. A man was out selling ...

Introduction The objective of this essay will be to investigate the relevance and application of the social movement theories and concepts in analysing the developments in the middle east Arab countries since the beginning of what has come to be known as the Arab Spring. A social movement is a network of informal interactions between a plurality of individuals, groups and/or organizations, engaged in a political or cultural conflict, on the basis of a shared collective identity' (Diani, ...

Revolutions have introduced about a number of the most radical differences in international records and politics over the course of the world history, over the past decade, numerous regimes have fallen and risen. The Arab world has had an ongoing reputation of dictators. Mohammed Bouazizi, a street vendor, lit himself on fire because the Tunisian government confiscated his cart, thus started the series of revolutions known as the Arab Spring. The leading foundations of the Arab Spring can be ...

The Arab world has always been the core subject of heated debates; the most crucial determinant for these debates is democratization. The main challenge faced by many researchers studying the field of political science is that when analysing the reasons and factors that inhibit democratisation in this particular region, they have failed to incorporate regional and international factors along with local factors within each Arab country. It is unsurprising that when local factors are addressed ...