Author: Marco Centaro – 03/05/2024
MOROCCO’S EXCEPTIONALISM: THE 2011 UPRISING AND BEYOND
Marco Centaro
Discussing the Arab Spring is surely no easy task, mainly because scholars face enormous difficulties when trying to identify limits, dimensions, and approaches to such a phenomenon. For the last decade, it has even been discussed whether the same definition could apply to the wave of unrest that shook the MENA region or not. Much of the criticism complained both about the instabilities having different natures in all Countries involved, and the choice of “Arab” as a catch-all epithet (the profound wedges across the region would undermine the identification of a united and single geographical entity).
Thus, this paper aims to analyze the dynamics of the specific uprisings that characterized Morocco’s “exceptional” 2011 experience, for they can explain many deep aspects of the country’s domestic mechanisms.
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The Author:
Marco Centaro – International Security master’s student at the University of International Studies of Rome with a Bachelor degree in Investigation and Security Sciences (thesis on Travel Security). Currently performing an exchange program at Université Internationale de Rabat and collaborating with Vision and Global Trends through the production of reviews and analyses