TY - UNPB
T1 - Restoration, Transformation and Adaptation
T2 - Authoritarianism after 2011 in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran
AU - Boserup, Rasmus Alenius
AU - Woertz, Eckart
AU - Hassan, Hiba
AU - Rózsa, Erzsébet N.
AU - Zaccara, Luciano
PY - 2019/1/14
Y1 - 2019/1/14
N2 - Following the push for reform during the popular uprising in 2011, authoritarianism is once again dominating domestic politics and power relations in the MENA region. Drawing on data collected during field trips to Cairo, Tehran, Beirut and Kuwait city, the authors of this MENARA report analyse three distinct ways in which political leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran have stood their grounds since 2011 by. This working paper shows that the region’s autocratic leaders have adopted highly distinct strategies to cope with the challenges they have been confronted with internally – including strategies of “restoration”, of “transformation” and of “adaptation”. The working paper ends by suggesting that European leaders, in spite of their limited leverage and resources, have a long-term strategic interest in fostering alternative forms of political regimes in the MENA region.
AB - Following the push for reform during the popular uprising in 2011, authoritarianism is once again dominating domestic politics and power relations in the MENA region. Drawing on data collected during field trips to Cairo, Tehran, Beirut and Kuwait city, the authors of this MENARA report analyse three distinct ways in which political leaders in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran have stood their grounds since 2011 by. This working paper shows that the region’s autocratic leaders have adopted highly distinct strategies to cope with the challenges they have been confronted with internally – including strategies of “restoration”, of “transformation” and of “adaptation”. The working paper ends by suggesting that European leaders, in spite of their limited leverage and resources, have a long-term strategic interest in fostering alternative forms of political regimes in the MENA region.
KW - Egypt
KW - Iran
KW - Saudi Arabia
KW - authoritarianism
KW - regimes
KW - autocracy
UR - https://www.diis.dk/publikationer/authoritarianism-in-the-middle-east
M3 - Papers and Working Papers
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 27
BT - Restoration, Transformation and Adaptation
PB - Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI)
CY - Rome
ER -