This event is jointly organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Society for Algerian Studies.
The Arab Spring’s influence on the Maghreb has been piecemeal and partial. In Tunisia, the Ben Ali regime was overthrown in a fortnight enabling the country to redraft its constitution and hold multi-party elections, while in Algeria, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika went on to win an unprecedented fourth term in office despite being too ill to stand or campaign. What explains these varied experiences? Why did Ben Ali’s regime fall and Bouteflika’s survive? Why has Morocco not gone the same way as Tunisia? And what of Mauritania, the oft forgotten and frequently ignored other Maghreb country?
Jonathan Hill addresses these and other questions by using Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way’s (2010) celebrated model for explaining democratisation to analyse and compare Morocco’s, Algeria’s, Tunisia’s and Mauritania’s political development over the past 10 years.
Event Details
Speakers: Dr Jonathan Hill, King's College London & LSE Middle East Centre
Chair: John King, Society for Algerian Studies
Date: Wednesday 03 February 2016
Time: 18.00-19.30
Event Hashtag: #LSEHill
Location: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
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Speaker
Jonathan Hill is Visiting Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. He is also Reader in Postcolonialism and the Maghreb in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London. He is currently completing a book for Edinburgh University Press entitled Democratisation in the Maghreb.