Governance & Political Reform

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

Egypt’s Struggle for Stability in a Volatile Environment

The lack of channels for social demands creates the conditions for sudden explosions of anger. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed some latent contradictions within Egyptian society.

 15 September 2020
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Oppositions and Transitions in the Arab World Post 2011

The workshop, organized by the Center for Social Science Studies and Research in cooperation with EuroMeSCo, aims to fill this gap. The event examines the state of the opposition in the context of the new Arab political systems.

 11 November 2014

Winning to Lose: The State´s Unsustainable Counterrevolutionary Comeback in Egypt

The 2011 revolution brought the opportunity to challenge the state´s model of governance but three years later many argue that the Egyptian state has succeeded to absorb the revolutionary shocks and has ensured a successful comeback.

 18 September 2014

Western Balkans: Does the Past Determine the Future? Pictures of South Slav Reality

The Balkan region is still deeply marked by the stereotypes created by the Western vision as well as by the past of a people in which long periods of peace have been the exception.

 15 September 2014

Printemps arabe : bilan mitigé

Quelle que soit l’évolution des pays arabes, un constat s’impose : les peuples arabes n’ont plus peur des dictateurs et sont décidés à se battre pour leur dignité.

 15 September 2014

The Inverse Trajectories of the Salafists in Tunisia and Egypt

The post-revolutionary transitions in Tunisia and Egypt have been marked by the emergence of Salafist movements whose real strength few observers have truly comprehended.

 11 September 2014

The Arab Uprising and the Stalled Transition Process

The Arab Uprisings that began in 2010 has removed four presidents to date and seemingly made increasingly mobilised, mass publics a predominant factor in the politics of regional states.

 10 September 2014

Constitutional Models vs Political Reality: The making of Arab Constitutions after the Uprisings

The 2011 uprisings in the Arab world have triggered a wave of constitution-making, although not necessarily of democratisation. Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt have adopted new constitutions – with Egypt actually enacting one full-fledged constitution.

 4 September 2014

Theoretical Framework and Types of Processes of Political Change Processes in Arab Regimes

The revolutions, popular uprisings and protests that have taken place in the vast majority of Arab countries since December 2010 have triggered a fifth wave of political change in the region of North Africa and the Middle East.

 3 September 2014

The Situation in Jordan: An Overview

The political management of Jordan’s Arab Spring was marked, on the internal level, by the triggering of crisis “fuses” consisting of six changes of government in three years.

 27 August 2014
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Constituent Processes and the Role of State Powers in the Transitions in North Africa

In Morocco (2011), Tunisia (2014) and Egypt (2012 and 2014), the adoption of a constitution has been considered as a central element to complete the democratic transition process.

 18 August 2014

The Dangerous Impasses of the Libyan Transition

The ousting of Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on 11 March 2014 by the General National Congress (GNC, the Libyan Parliament), closed the sequence that began with the legislative elections of 7 July 2012, the first free elections since 1969.

 24 July 2014

Egypt: An Overview

Egypt’s problems are easy to point out and difficult to resolve: for the next two decades at least, it will need to create at least one million jobs per year, if it wants to absorb the new arrivals on the labour market and remain afloat.

 22 July 2014