Gouvernance et réforme politique

Maroc : une Constitution pour la continuité

L’on peut affirmer que le Maroc a été le pays à réagir avec la plus grande rapidité, flexibilité et intelligence à la pression, des demandes du mouvement de protestations connu sous le nom de Printemps arabe. Il convient cependant de ne pas...

L’Algérie et le « Printemps Arabe » : un contexte singulier, à court terme, et des perspectives communes, à long terme

L’Algérie est bien affectée par la vague de contestation politique qui parcourt l’ensemble du monde arabe. Et ce, en raison d’un contexte national singulier, actuellement dominé par dix caractéristiques majeures.

Révolution du Proche-Orient, deuxième acte : l’ère constitutionnelle

Les processus constitutionnels représentent le fondement stratégique de la démocratie, et au Proche-Orient, ils offrent un avenir institutionnalisé à la nonviolence, en tant qu’intense indicateur de la révolution en marche. La question est de...

Réforme constitutionnelle au Maroc

Mohammed Tozy (Casablanca, 1956) est le politologue marocain le plus célèbre en dehors de ses frontières. Son livre Monarchie et Islam politique au Maroc (Presses de Science Po, Paris, 1999), l’a consacré comme le grand expert sur l’islamisme...

The International Community is Trying to Learn That You Cannot Export Democracy

The international community is now trying to learn that you cannot export democracy. It is crucial that the countries in the Arab world know this too and instead develop their own types of democracy.

September 2011 – Is It a Turning Point?

The change of Palestinian strategy from negotiations to an effort to get UN recognition for a Palestinian state is a result of a stalemate in the negotiations process. In Israel there is a debate on the implications of this new Palestinian strategy....

North Africa’s Intifadas: Is Algeria Next?

The conditions that led to the uprisings in other parts of North Africa have long existed in Algeria. Yet these system challenges have rarely threatened the regime’s existence as long as le pouvoir remained united.

Tunisia and the Arab Democratic Awakening

Who would have foreseen such agitation? Who dared hope that the Tunisian people would be capable of overturning a plundering police regime whose stability and strength was extolled in Europe and elsewhere?

Democratisation and Reform in the Arab Countries: Dynamics of Transformation

The Conundrum of democratisation and reform in the Arab countries has always been defined by three major elements: governance backlogs, development deficits, and a complex regional and international environment.

The Year of Revolts, the Year of Hopes

Turkey’s Constitutional Reform and the 2010 Constitutional Referendum

Most observers, Turkish and foreign alike, acknowledge that Turkey has a constitutional problem.

Turbulent Chronicle of Resistance to Political Change in Algeria

The line of defence of the Algerian authorities is not based solely on “political corruption” via the massive purchase of social peace. It also relies on society’s fresh memory of the chaos of civil war.