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Defect or defend? Explaining military responses during the Arab uprisings

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Defect or defend? Explaining military responses during the Arab uprisings

[Thesis]

Timothy A. Hazen

Schraeder, Peter J.

Loyola University Chicago

2016

293

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-57360-2

Ph.D.

Political Science

Loyola University Chicago

2016

The Arab uprisings demonstrated that a military's response to the domestic unrest had a significant impact on whether the protests were successful and triggered regime change. In Egypt and Tunisia, the militaries defected from the incumbent regimes, and as a result the ruling leaders were removed, whereas in Bahrain, the military defended the regime and used violence against protesters, which led to the continuation of the government's rule. Scholars identify numerous factors to explain Middle East and North African (MENA) military behavior during the Arab uprising but overall these arguments tend to overemphasize individual case studies and fail to provide a region-wide, systematic argument as to what explains regime defection or regime loyalty during the uprisings.

Political science

Social sciences;Arab;Defect;Defend;Military;Uprisings

AlShirawi, Dana

Schraeder, Peter J.

Political Science

Loyola University Chicago

1876549879; 10191004

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[Thesis]

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