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10 Years on from the Arab Spring, Tunisia is positioned to show how democracy can be successful in the Arab World. Tunisia had significant international influence on this possible success from various actors with their own agendas. This paper examine show international actors in…
Most models of property rights assume they are supplied by the state on demand from society. Property rights are strong when state institutions enforce the law. The strength of state institutions in the provinces determines how well property rights will be enforced on the ground…
The 2010-2011 Jasmine Revolution brought many Tunisians who had lived their entire lives under authoritarian regime out onto the streets for the first time in protest. Tunisians of all ages and social backgrounds participated, demanding the ousting of then-dictator Zine el Abidi…
Although much attention has been paid to the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the prospects for lasting democratic change in those countries, few studies focus on the institutional choices behind one of the most important organizations in a transitioning democracy: the …
This study focuses on three major Maghreb states (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with distinct institutional, political and socioeconomic patterns. It essentially tackles the issue of technological development particularly investments, trade, human capital and patents in a social…
The revolutions that began in Tunisia in late 2010 spread across the region and toppled many seemingly durable authoritarian regimes in the Arab world. These revolutions in the name of democracy drew many comparisons to the popular color revolutions of the early 2000s that ouste…
The aspirations of this assessment are to convince the reader that by identifying critical features of the Ben Ali regime and its observable transformations over 23 years, I will support the conclusion that the system that Ben Ali created was ultimately destined to fail. I hope …
American diplomatic involvement in the French-Algerian War of 1954-1962 was never as heightened as it was during the aftermath of the French bombing of the Tunisian border town of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef on February 8, 1958. The bombardment of Sakiet, and the deaths of dozens of Tun…
Cette étude s'intéresse à la vieillesse dans le contexte particulier de la société tunisienne en tant que société en mutation. Elle se propose de comprendre et d'analyser les représentations que se font des personnes âgées de leur place dans ladite société, plus précisément elle…
The Arab spring confronted EU officials with the shortcomings of past democracy promotion initiatives. As a consequence, the concept of civil society experienced a rhetorical renaissance and was put at the heart of renewed EU policies for its southern neighborhood. Utilizing Tun…
In seeking to explain why and when democratic transitions occur or do not occur, political science has treated all types of states similarly without regard to a state's ideological character despite ideology being a critical variable for a significant subset of states. Does poli…
La chute de la dictature du président Ben Ali constitue un tournant dans les évènements politiques du Moyen Orient et d'Afrique du Nord. Elle aura été le début d'un long processus de modification de la carte géopolitique de la région, touchant pratiquement tous les pays arabes. …
The goal of this study was to discover the actual changes in Tunisian women's perception of their role in the family and society through an examination of literary works, in Arabic, of contemporary Tunisian women writers. The study traced the development of the expression of Tun…
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Muslim North Africans were French colonial subjects and started to become a sizable minority in France. A few thousand in the first decade, France brought over 300,000 of them to Europe as soldiers and workers during World …
How do social media contribute to groups engaged in contentious politics within a domestic environment? While many have examined the influence of social media on the Arab revolutions of 2010-2011 from an international perspective, there are fewer studies examining the impact of …
This thesis aims to determine if variation or changes can be identified in animal conceptualization (the relationship between humans, animals, and worship of the gods) between past cultures of North Africa, who have experienced continual direct or indirect interaction over an ex…