The Arab spring revisited : from mass protests to local revolts

• Main Author: Dorsey, James M.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95418; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8854
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The push for change in the Middle East and North Africa, dominated by the bloody civil war in Syria, has morphed from mass anti-government protests in the capitals into a wave of smaller, political and socioeconomic protests often in the outlying towns, that could lead to a second round of ant...