More than three years have passed since Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid and inadvertently lit the spark of regional upheaval. The resulting conflagration caught regimes by surprise and led to the rapid toppling of ‘Presidents-for-life’ in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and the grisly demise of Libya’s dictator of […]
David Held and Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
David Held is Master of University College and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Durham University. Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is a Fellow at the Baker Institute, Rice University.