{"id":22957,"date":"2017-06-20T07:26:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T07:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/causes-of-the-arab-spring-a-critical-analysis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:14:35","slug":"causes-of-the-arab-spring-a-critical-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/causes-of-the-arab-spring-a-critical-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes of the Arab Spring: A Critical Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dr. Spyros Plakoudas, Analyst KEDISA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Arab Spring: The Third Wave of Democratization<\/u><\/p>\n<p>In December 2010, the self-immolation of a street vendor in Tunisia triggered the Arab Spring \u2013 this series of (peaceful) popular uprisings from Egypt in the Fertile Crescent to Tunisia in the Maghreb. This process was symbolically termed the \u201cArab Spring\u201d in analogy to the \u201cSpringtime of the Peoples\u201d in 1848 \u2013 the chain political revolutions which shook the foundations of the monarchies in Europe and paved the way for the democratization of the Old Continent.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Marc Lynch: <em>The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East<\/em>, (New York: Public Affairs, 2012).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kedisa.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Causes-of-the-Arab-Spring.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full analysis in PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Spyros Plakoudas, Analyst KEDISA Arab Spring: The Third Wave of Democratization In December&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22958,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22957\/revisions\/22958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}