Last weekend, major changes were made at Tunisia’s national congress. We published three excellent pieces about it on the Monkey…
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POMEPS Studies 18: Reflections Five Years After the Uprisings
POMEPS Studies 18 — March 28, 2016 The early months of 2016 mark five years since the eruption of the…
Continue ReadingNo Victor, No Vanquished…or Delaying the Inevitable?
By Ian M. Hartshorn *This memo was prepared for the “Evolving Methodologies in the Study of Islamist Politics” Researchers in…
Continue ReadingTunisia uprising: Five years later
Five years ago today, a 26-year-old Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, lit himself on fire to protest government corruption. His…
Continue ReadingWeek in Review: New POMEPS Brief on Tunisia; Analysis on Libya, Iran
New POMEPS Briefing: “Tunisia’s Volatile Transition to Democracy” Last month, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet was awarded the Nobel Peace…
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POMEPS Brief #27 — Tunisia’s Volatile Transition to Democracy (PDF) On October 9, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet was awarded…
Continue ReadingWeek in Review: Yemen, Tunisia & Upcoming Events
In the Monkey Cage, we had a two-part series on Yemen. Mareike Transfeld, of Freie Universität Berlin, explained why Yemen’s…
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In the Monkey Cage, Mark R. Beissinger, Amaney A. Jamal, and Kevin Mazur (all of Princeton University) examine the contrasting strategies of the Tunisian and…
Continue ReadingSarah Bush: The Taming of Democracy Assistance
POMEPS congratulates Sarah Bush on the upcoming release of her first book, The Taming of Democracy Assistance: Why Democracy Promotion Does…
Continue ReadingHow Egypt’s coup really affected Tunisia’s Islamists
By Monica Marks, University of Oxford *This memo was prepared for the “Islamist Politics in the Shadow of the Islamic…
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