After the Arab Uprisings

Why were some but not all the Arab mass social protests of 2011 accompanied by relatively quick and nonviolent outcomes in the direction of regime change democracy and social transformation? Why was a democratic transition limited to Tunisia and why did region-wide democratization not occur? After the Arab Uprisings offers an explanatory framework to answer these central questions based on four key themes: state and regime type civil society gender relations and women''s mobilizations and external influence. Applying these to seven cases: Tunisia Egypt Morocco Bahrain Libya Syria and Yemen Valentine M. Moghadam and Shamiran Mako highlight the salience of domestic and external factors and forces uniquely presenting women''s legal status social positions and organizational capacity along with the presence or absence of external intervention as key elements in explaining the divergent outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings and extending the analysis to the present day.