The Arab Spring or How to Explain those Revolutionary Episodes?

Passive, Silent and Revolutionary: The ‘Arab Spring’ Revisited

To counter the trend toward mechanization of research and aridity of critical analysis, this article makes a case for an interdisciplinary quest. To borrow Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze's phrase, we are convinced that 'everything is political, but every politics is simultaneously a macropolitics and a micropolitics.' With an eye to open-ended research questions, this article attempts to bui...

Media and Revolutionary Movements in the Arab Countries

Demystifying the Arab Spring

In Tunisia, protesters escalated calls for the restoration of the country's suspended constitution. Meanwhile, Egyptians rose in revolt as strikes across the country brought daily life to a halt and toppled the government. In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to strengthen their newly independent republic. It was 1919. That year's events demonstrate that the global diffusion of inform...

The United States and the Arab Spring

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic and strategic security interests hav...

Precursor to the Arab Spring, Evidence from the Social Media

Using the computer to analyze a large-scale textual data from Tweeter and various Blog web sites over the period of 2007 2012, we study the differences of turmoils, which happen to Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. We present visualizations serve as a tool to compare different countries of Arab spring, and to study them in chronological order to track the use of sentime...