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Can a New Generation Bring about Regime Change?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2011

Robert L. Tignor*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; e-mail: rltignor@princeton.edu

Extract

Peaceful protests and demonstrations have swept through the Arab world, toppling rulers and advancing programs of radical change. Some enthusiasts for these movements have already proclaimed them a revolution. They predict a new Middle Eastern political and economic order. A new generation of young people—men and women, mainly in their twenties and thirties, using their skills in cyberspace communication and fueled by many frustrations—assembled vast numbers in peaceful protests that have thus far claimed many triumphs. They forced the departures of the long-standing dictators of Egypt and Tunisia and have demanded that the monarchs of Jordan, Morocco, and Bahrain reign rather than rule.

Type
The Arab Uprisings of 2011
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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