Reconfiguring post-Cold War views of international order in the Mediterranean: The Arab uprisings as a conceptual and material turning point?

This paper addresses the significance of the 2011 Arab uprisings for the construction of a more cohesive Mediterranean region. It considers the evolution of the political dynamics of integration and non-integration in the Mediterranean since the end of the Cold War. It examines how far the processes initiated by the Arab uprisings provide a new impulse for regional integration and how far the new post-revolutionary dilemmas prolong and/or strengthen the kind of regional fragmentation witnessed during the preceding decade of the “war on terror”.Cet article étudie la signification des insurrections arabes du printemps 2011 sur la construction d’une région Méditerranée plus intégrée. Il considère l’évolution des dynamiques politiques d’intégration et de non-intégration en Méditerranée depuis la fin de la guerre froide. Il étudie jusqu’où les processus issus des insurrections arabes produisent une nouvelle impulsion en direction de l’intégration régionale et jusqu’où les difficultés post-révolutionnaires prolongent et/ou renforcent la fragmentation régionale observée au cours de la décennie qui a précédé la « guerre contre la Terreur »

Islamism and the state after the Arab uprisings: Between people power and state power

The authors would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council for facilitating the research for this article through their support of the research network People Power versus State Power of the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World.This paper examines the trajectories of different Islamist trends in the light of the Arab uprisings. It proposes a distinction between statist and non-statist Islamism to help understand the multiplicity of interactions between Islamists and the state, particularly after 2011. It is outlined how statist Islamists (Islamist parties principally) can contribute to the stabilization and democratization of the state when their interactions with other social and political actors facilitate consensus building in national politics. By contrast when these interactions are conflictual, it has a detrimental impact on both the statist Islamists, and the possibility of democratic politics at the national level. Non statist-Islamists (from quietist salafi to armed jihadi) who prioritize the religious community over national politics are directly impacted by the interactions between statist Islamists and the state, and generally tend to benefit from the failure to build a consensus over democratic national politics. Far more than nationally-grounded statist Islamists, non-statist Islamists shape and are shaped by the regional dynamics on the Arab uprisings and the international and transnational relations between the different countries and conflict areas of the Middle East. The Arab uprisings and their aftermath reshaped pre-existing national and international dynamics of confrontation and collaboration between Islamists and the state, and between statist and non-statists Islamists, for better (Tunisia) and for worse (Egypt).PostprintPeer reviewe

Algeria versus the Arab Spring

International audienceWhat accounts for continuing authoritarian success in the Arab world today? In light of the “Arab Spring,” explanations of “authoritarian resilience” in the region clearly need to be revised. Consider the example of Algeria, which exemplifies a type of authoritarian resistance to popular challenges that is based on pseudodemocratization, redistributive patronage, and an effective use of the security apparatus. Despite its unsteady mode of authoritarian governance, the Algerian regime currently possesses the means to cope with the difficulties presented by popular uprisings. Yet it cannot survive in its current form for long, given its dwindling legitimacy, its lack of truly institutionalized mechanisms for transferring power, and the intrinsic limits of its system of patronag

Algeria between revolution and democracy (1988-1999) : Islamic fundamentalism and political change at the end of the twentieth century

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