Ben Ali's Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime

by Anne Wolf

Based on a wealth of new primary data, this book offers the first account of the internal regime factors that ultimately caused the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's long dictatorship in Tunisia during the Arab Uprisings. Anne Wolf's account challenges studies that focus on the role of mass mobilization alone, and demonstrates that in the last decade of Ben Ali's presidency, dissent within his ruling party - the Constitutional Democratic Rally - mounted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192868500
• ISBN13: 9780192868503
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"