Arab Uprisings and Armed Forces, Between Openness and Resistance

Author

Lutterbeck; Derek

Year

2011

Publisher

Ubiquity Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

24-Jul-2025

Keywords

security-studies-discipline ; International Relations ; Political Science ; Middle East Studies

Description

Since late 2010 an unprecedented wave of popular uprisings calling for greater political freedoms, and in several countries even regime change, has swept across much of the Arab world. Following the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, which led to the toppling of the country’s long-standing autocrat, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, protest movements gained momentum in Egypt, where the country’s president for almost 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down after some three weeks of massive anti-regime demonstrations. In Libya, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who had ruled since 1967, was removed from power (and subsequently killed) after a six months -long civil war...