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Young Generation Awakening - Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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Young Generation Awakening - Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
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The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and
spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the
entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers
who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle
Eastern authoritarianism. Specifically, the Arab Spring uprisings
debunked the prevailing notion that youth were disengaged from
political life by their economic exclusion and tight regime control
of their mobilization. Indeed, the one consistent feature across
the uprisings, whether peaceful or violent, was the key role played
by young people. What has remained unclear is why youth became the
vanguards of the Arab Spring protests and why they have not played
a more prominent role in the transitions that followed. To address
these questions, the authors in this volume use updated data sets
on demography, employment, education, inequality, social media and
public sentiment to examine the underlying socioeconomic conditions
of young people in the Middle East at the time of the uprisings and
offer a mosaic of analytical explanations linking those conditions
from 2009-2011 to the revolts of 2010-2012. The findings in the
volume confirm the inadequacy of traditional narrow explanations
rooted in demographic profiles, economic grievances or political
exclusion in accounting for the complex socioeconomic dynamics
facing youth and societies at large in the Middle East in the
period leading up to the Arab Spring. The contributors emphasize
the fundamental institutional rigidities in the region's policy
space and evaluate potential approaches to policy reform that can
promote youth inclusion and help transform the region's political
economies in the post Arab Spring environment of persistent
economic volatility, social unrest and political instability.
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