The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings: Actors and Constituencies

In line with Critique internationale’s special issue “The Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings”, the participants in this conference will analyze the socio-economic underpinnings of recent contestation and post-contestation politics in the various Arabic speaking countries. Delineating categories of actors, pressure groups, and more generally constituencies that under authoritarian rule and allocation patterns took to the streets will help to identify forces that opted for political change and others that opted for continuity.

 

09:15-12:30   Preliminary Remarks
Myriam Catusse (IFPO), Eberhard Kienle (IFPO), Laurence Louër (Sciences Po-CERI)

Stephan Roll, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Egypt’s Business Elite after Mubarak

Eric Gobe, CNRS, AMU/IREMAM
Tunisian Lawyers and Revolution: the Political Economy of a Legal Profession

Eberhard Kienle, IFPO
Status-Quo Revolutionaries: Mainstream Islamists in the Arab Spring

Ishac Diwan, Harvard Kennedy School
Where Did all the Revolutionaries Go? Public Opinion and Social Groups in Egypt and Morocco?

02:00-06:00
Marie Duboc, University of Tübingen
“We are Pro-Bread”: The Politics of a Workers’ Social Contract in Egypt

Laurence Louër, Sciences Po-CERI
Labor Politics in Bahrain and Oman Post-Uprisings

Ray Bush, University of Leeds
Absent Voices: Farmers, Uprisings and Food Security in Egypt

Myriam Catusse, IFPO
When Social Struggles Meet Clientelism. Preliminary Reflexions on Subaltern Lives and Politics in the Arab World