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- Title
THE ARAB SPRING: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS.
- Authors
Korotayev, Audrey V.; Issaev, Leonid M.; Maikov, Sergey Yu.; Shishkina, Alisa R.
- Abstract
The quantitative analysis of the Arab Spring events is a rather difficult task. Respective difficulties are related to the variety of factors affecting social instability, and to individual peculiarities of historical, cultural, socio-economic, and political processes in the region. As a result of the research, we found out that the processes of social and political destabilization in the countries of Arab Spring were caused by a complex set of factors. The most significant factors that tended to reduce the scale of sociopolitical destabilization during the Arab Spring have turned out to be the following: the ability of the government to reduce social tensions and the presence of "immunity" to internal conflicts. However, such indicators as structural and demographical characteristics and external influences turned out to be less significant in the context of the Arab Spring. It should be mentioned that the significance of the external influences indicator notably increases when the model is used to account for the death toll resultant from anti-government protests. We also discuss the possibility of applying the developed model of sociopolitical destabilization to forecast sociopolitical upheavals in future.
- Subjects
ARAB Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012; ARAB countries politics &; government; SOCIAL stability; QUANTITATIVE research; DEMOGRAPHY -- Social aspects; SOCIAL conflict; POWER (Social sciences); TWENTY-first century
- Publication
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0271-3519
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13169/arabstudquar.36.2.0149