Arabian spring1 Introduction Popular uprisings and regime change ...

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UCDP Arabian Spring 2010-2011 1 Arabian spring1 Introduction Popular uprisings and regime change are two events that often occur with a temporal order of the former preceding the latter. Every year witnesses a number of popular uprisings, the reasons behind them vary, as does the response from the state. The first half of 2011 have seen a remarkable amount of uprisings, popular protests have spread throughout the entire Middle East and North Africa.

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