Authoritarian Resilience and Civil Society Constraints in Pre- and Post-Arab Spring States: Rethinking State–Society Dynamics and Regional Stability in the MENA Region

• In Event: Conflict and Domestic Security

Brief Overview

Preliminary findings indicate that state security institutions, coercive apparatuses, and intelligence agencies retain far more influence over political change than civil society possesses in shaping democratization trajectories.

Author

• Stacey Erin Pollard, National Intelligence University