This collection examines new authoritarian practices that 16 MENA countries have developed in the aftermath of major uprisings across the region. These span new forms of digital surveillance, new protest policing practices, new forms of control over the judiciary, civil society and media, through to new security and communication laws and state of emergencies. The book also emphasises continuities with past authoritarian practices such as intimidation, imprisonment, torture, extrajudicial killing and ill treatment of dissidents, as well as other practices to suppress dissents and control activists, opposition parties, the judiciary and the media. By focusing on micro-practices of repression, New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa balances macro-structural explanations of authoritarian persistence alongside widespread social discontent and opposition.

About the Author
Ozgun Topak, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science, York University, Canada. Merouan Mekouar, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science, York University, Canada. Francesco Cavatorta, Professor of Political Science at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l'Afrique et le Moyen Orient (CIRAM), Universite Laval, Quebec.


Book Information
ISBN 9781474489409
Author Ozgun Topak
Format Hardback
Page Count 384
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press