1st Edition
Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
1. Introduction: Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World
Muriel Asseburg and Heiko Wimmen
2. Managing Change: How Egypt's Military Leadership Shaped the Transformation
Stephan Roll
3. Youth Movements in the Egyptian Transformation: Strategies and Repertoires of Political Participation
Nadine Abdalla
4.Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building
Wolfram Lacher
5. Mobilized Publics in Post-Qadhafi Libya: The Emergence of New Modes of Popular Protest in Tripoli and Ubari
Rafaa Tabib
6. Islamists, Secularists and Old Regime Elites in Tunisia: Bargained Competition
Amel Boubekeur
7. Contested Transformation: Mobilized Publics in Tunisia between Compliance and Protest
Anna Antonakis-Nashif
8. Political Bargaining and Violent Conflict: Shifting Elite Alliances as the Decisive Factor in Yemen’s Transformation
Mareike Transfeld
9. Yemen’s Enduring Resistance: Youth Between Politics and Informal Mobilization
Atiaf Alwazir
10. Conclusion: Explaining the Arab Uprisings: Transformations in comparative perspective
Steven Heydemann
Biography
Muriel Asseburg is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and questions of state building, political reform and political Islam in the Arab world as well as German, European and US Middle East policies. She recently published Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World. Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options (2012).
Heiko Wimmen has been a researcher with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since 2009 with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria. In addition, he pursues a PhD project on political activism and social mobilization in divided societies of the Middle East and the Balkans. Recent publications include Democratic Transition in the Middle East. Unmaking power (2012) and Emerging Powers and the Middle East (2010).
