Special Issue: Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World

This Special Issue of the Mediterranean Politics includes the following contents:

+ Dynamics of transformation, elite change and new social mobilization in the Arab World
Muriel Asseburg & Heiko Wimmen

+ Managing change: how Egypt’s military leadership shaped the transformation
Stephan Roll

+ Youth movements in the Egyptian transformation: strategies and repertoires of political participation
Nadine Abdalla

+ Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building
Wolfram Lacher

+ Mobilized publics in Post-Qadhafi Libya: the emergence of new modes of popular protest in Tripoli and Ubari
Rafaa Tabib

+ Islamists, Secularists and Old Regime Elites in Tunisia: bargained Competition
Amel Boubekeur

+ Contested transformation: mobilized publics in Tunisia between compliance and protest
Anna Antonakis-Nashif

+ Political bargaining and violent conflict: shifting elite alliances as the decisive factor in Yemen’s transformation
Mareike Transfeld

+ Yemen’s enduring resistance: youth between politics and informal mobilization
Atiaf Z. Alwazir

+ Explaining the Arab Uprisings: transformations in Comparative Perspective
Steven Heydemann