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Lies hacking surveillance and diplomacy in the digital Era Flashcards

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Arab spring 18 December 2010-2012

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Wave of popular uprisings, demonstrations, strikes, protests, riots and civil wars that spread throughout North Africa and the middle east

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When did the arab spring start?

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17 December 2010 when Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest of police brutality and humiliation he died a few days after
-This sparked a wave of protests that soon gathered momentum and spread like wildire across the regio

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What causes the arab spring?

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Unemployment
Poverty & injustic/ wealth gap
Food price
Authoritariansm
Corruption and regime excesses
Police/regime brutality
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Who and what played a role in the arab spring?

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Wikileaks revelations triggered civil unrest

  • passive ambivalent conservative reaction by the international community esp US/EU
  • Social media helped to mobilise protestors
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Tunisia - success

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The only real success story of the arab spring, dictator Ben Ali ousted days after the riots started and the country transitioned peacefully to a democracy; moderate Islamists accepted electoral defeat

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Libya

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Colonal Muammar Gaddafi overthrown after unrest/civil war and international intervention; captured and killed by civil war opponents; social and political fabric disintegrates

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Egypt

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President Hosni Mubarak forced to resign February 2011 after weeks of protests Tahrir square in Cairo, democratic elections won by muslim brotherhood; MB supported president overthrown by military coup

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Yemen

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President Al Abdullah saleh forced to sign power transfer deal in return for immunity

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Iraq and Sudan

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Leaders voluntarily stepped down at the end of their terms

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Bahrain

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protests suppressed by the authorities

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Kuwait

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resignation of PM

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Jordan

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King sacked four successive governments

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Algeria and Morocco

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no regime change but governments forced to make political concessions

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Syria

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Protests spark (still ongoing) civil war, provide isis with resources and legitmacy

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What happened in the Tunisia terrorist attack?

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Wednesday 18th March 2015
Bardo Museum Tunis
20 tourists dead
objective to destabilise Tunisia
Praised by ISIS
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