Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advanced ICT (ICAICTE 2014)

New Wave of Democratization: The Case of Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

Authors
Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin, Wan Kamal Mujani, Azyati Azhani Mazuki
Corresponding Author
Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin
Available Online August 2014.
DOI
10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Arab spring; democratization, democratic transition, new social media
Abstract

In recent years, the world has witnessed a dramatic change in Middle Eastern political landscape with the collapse of several long-serving dictators from Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya. They were the former presidents of these countries who, in the unfolding of history, had been ousted by their own people from a massive revolution known as the Arab Spring. This event has raised a question among political scientists; whether it is a sign of the coming wave or the new wave of democratization. Therefore, this dissertation aims to identify the extent of the correlation between the countries involved in the Arab Spring, specifically the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, with the new wave of democratization. By revisiting the previous wave of democratization, this article will view closely the extent to which the factors that contributed to the Tunisian Jasmine Revolution and the Egyptian 25 January Revolution could serve as the new wave of democratization..

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advanced ICT (ICAICTE 2014)
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
August 2014
ISBN
10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36
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2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/icaicte-14.2014.36How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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