... capabilities and maintaining military/security alliances with Saudi Arabia and the USA. However, the UAE started to reorient its policy towards Iran by adopting some sort of balancing strategy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring of 2011. This paper examines how and why the UAE had to change course and explores...

.../legalcode Egypt Elections Arab Spring Non-Islamist parties Years after the 2011 uprising Egypt, it seems that the country’s non-Islamist parties are still included in the political game. After significant alterations in their political sphere by mid-2013 at the advent of the Muslim Brother...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Egypt Democratization Arab spring Civil society organizations Democracy assistance German political foundations This paper investigates the German political foundations (GPFs) as long-lasting international...

... at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Arab spring ENP Democracy promotion democracy-security dilemma logic of action While democracy and security have long been the leitmotifs of European policies in the Mediterranean, many commentators have criticized them as geared...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Arab spring Revolution Diverse demographic background Socio-economic and political condition Since the 1980s, many emerging and developing countries suffered from social and economic inequalities. At any given rate of economic growth achieved...