The Arab Spring is not lost

Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla

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“…Wealth, education, foreign involvement, and civil society are a few factors that impact democracy. 2 According to Sadiki (2014), a strong civil society is required to rally the populace behind democratic goals. However, in order to have a vibrant civil society, a democratic atmosphere that promotes freedom of speech must be established.…”

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The Role of CSOs in The Democratisation Process in Iraqi Kurdistan

Jamal Mohammed Ameen Hussein,

Abdulwahed Jalal Nori

2023

JIA

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This article examines the role of CSOs in the democratisation process in IK and shows that they have a strong and important position in the Kurdish community. Historically, all Iraqi governments have not believed in democracy, so CSOs have had no role to play. However, since the establishment of the Kurdistan Regional Government in 1992, it has, to some extent, followed the democratic system and provided the freedom to work for CSOs. Nevertheless, CSOs have faced many obstacles until they reached the strong position, they now have in participating in the democratisation process. This study uses historical, descriptive, and political analysis to establish that CSOs play a vital role in the democratisation process in Iraqi Kurdistan by using proposals and pressure. Given the serious dependence of CSOs on freedom for their operation, the study concluded that CSOs need to be free from political and financial independence to carry out their activities without hindrance and have more roles in the democratisation process.

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The Role of CSOs in The Democratisation Process in Iraqi Kurdistan

Jamal Mohammed Ameen Hussein,

Abdulwahed Jalal Nori

2023

JIA

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“…But, with the benefit of hindsight, and once the academic surprise dissipated, a multiplicity of apologetic narratives stressing the predictability and inevitability of Egypt's popular uprising emerged (Howard & Walters, 2014). Subsequently, observers began to reevaluate their previous positions and reinterpret the politicization of the Egyptian people under the rubric of democracy and Democratic Transition Theory (Sadiki, 2014). Those with a liberal democratic disposition, for instance, began to interpret the driving forces of the mass uprising as an outcome of a destabilizing structural change within and between competing socioeconomic classes.…”

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Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

Koussa

2023

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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The causes, consequences, and trajectory of the 2011 uprising in Egypt have been and continue to be a subject of scholarly debate. This article is situated within this debate with a particular focus on the role of political economy factors in engendering democracy and democratic transition. The key research objectives are to address why the Egyptian people came together in 2011 in an unprecedented show of solidarity to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime, to evaluate the interpretive frames for this uprising from two overlapping but fundamentally opposed perspectives—liberal democracy and radical democracy; to assess the extent to which the adoption of neoliberalism, accompanied by poverty and inequality, played a role in fomenting the countermovement against the regime; and to identify the underlying structures and process that links the 2011 uprising to the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The article concludes that the imposition of a neoliberal regime of capital accumulation, with dispossession and upward wealth redistribution at its heart, created the conditions for the rise of radical democratic mass movements that overthrew both Mubarak and Mohammed Morsi. The article further underlines that the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi not only halted the democratic reforms demanded by the Egyptian people but continues, at a faster pace, to impose the same neoliberal economic restructuring that catalyzed the uprising in the first place.

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The Arab Spring is not lost

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The Role of CSOs in The Democratisation Process in Iraqi Kurdistan

The Role of CSOs in The Democratisation Process in Iraqi Kurdistan

Revolution, Change, and Democratic Transition in Egypt Since 2011: A Critical Political Economy Approach

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