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Understanding Revolutions - Opening Acts in Tunisia (Hardcover)
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Understanding Revolutions - Opening Acts in Tunisia (Hardcover)
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Based on empirical and theoretical investigation, and original
insight into how a local protest movement developed into a
revolution that changed a regime, this book shows us how we can
understand political revolutions. Azmi Bishara critically explores
the gradual democratic reform and peaceful transfer of power in the
context of Tunisia. He grapples with the specific make-up of
Tunisia as a modern state and its republican political heritage and
investigates how this determined the development and survival of
the revolution and the democratic transition in its aftermath. For
Bishara, the political culture and attitudes of the elites and
their readiness to compromise, in addition to an army without
political ambitions, were aspects that proved crucial for the
relative success of the Tunisian experience. But he distinguishes
between protest movements and mass movements that aim at regime
change and discerns the social and political conditions required
for the transition from the former to the latter. Bishara shows
that the specific factors that correspond to mass movements and
regime change are relative deprivation, awareness of injustice,
dignity and indignation. He concludes, based on meticulous
documentation of the events in Tunisia and theoretical
investigation, that while revolutions are unpredictable with no
single theory able to explain them, all revolutions across
different historical and conceptual contexts be seen as popular
uprisings that aim at regime change. The book is the first of a
trilogy, the Understanding Revolutions series by Bishara, seeking
to provide a rich, comprehensive and lucid assessment of the
revolutions in three states: Tunisia, Syria, and Egypt.
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