Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent
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Author: James M. Dorsey
Topics: Arts, sport and music / Democracy, governance, active citizenship, civil society, electoral assistance
Year of publication: 2021
Link: https://mideastsoccer.blogspot.com/2021/01/middle-east-futures-decades-of-defiance.html
Resume: If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challenges is the fact that youth that often constitutes a majority of the population have lost or are losing confidence in government and religious establishments at a time that social contracts are being unilaterally rewritten by political elites.
Pressure on the Middle East’s autocratic rulers is likely to increase with the departure of US President Donald J. Trump, a staunch supporter of strong man rule and the coming to office of President-elect Joe Biden.
Author: James M. Dorsey
Topics: Arts, sport and music / Democracy, governance, active citizenship, civil society, electoral assistance
Year of publication: 2021
Link: https://mideastsoccer.blogspot.com/2021/01/middle-east-futures-decades-of-defiance.html
Resume: If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and depressed oil prices and energy markets. Complicating the challenges is the fact that youth that often constitutes a majority of the population have lost or are losing confidence in government and religious establishments at a time that social contracts are being unilaterally rewritten by political elites.
Pressure on the Middle East’s autocratic rulers is likely to increase with the departure of US President Donald J. Trump, a staunch supporter of strong man rule and the coming to office of President-elect Joe Biden.
