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==Background: the Arab condition== | ==Background: the Arab condition== | ||
[http://www.arab-api.org/cv/aali-cv/aali/wps0402.pdf] | |||
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The Arab countries have very diverse characteristics in such key areas as the structures of | |||
economies, level of development, geographic location, and type of governance and | |||
institutions. To highlight the economic diversity of the region, ERF (1998) grouped the | |||
countries of the region into four broad categories17: mixed oil economies (MOE: Algeria, | |||
Iraq and Libya); Oil Economies (OE), which include the countries of the Gulf | |||
Cooperation Council of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE; | |||
diversified economies (DE: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia); and, | |||
primary export economies (PEE: Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan and | |||
Yemen)18. | |||
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==The development of national movements== | ==The development of national movements== | ||
Revision as of 16:04, 29 July 2011
Although there have been other uses, the term Arab Spring is now taken to refer to the sequence of protest movements that started with the successful uprising in Tunisia that began in December 2010. The subsequent protest movements in other Arab countries were mainly motivated by a wish to put an end to what was perceived as government oppression, corruption and incompetence. Many sought to go so by introducing a measure of democratic accountability, but the various national movements had little else in common, apart from confidence inspired by the Tunisian success.