New Wave of Revolutions in the MENA Region

Leonid Issaev is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Chair of the Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risk Monitoring at HSE University (Russia) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Russian Political Sciences Association (RPSA) and the Russian Sociological Society, he teaches courses on Islamic political philosophy and on political systems and political processes in the Arab world. Andrey Korotayev is Head of the Laboratory for Sociopolitical Destabilization Risk Monitoring at HSE University (Russia) and Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He is the author / co-author of over 600 scholarly publications, including such monographs as Great Divergence and Great Convergence (Springer, 2015) and Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy. World System and World Values Perspectives (Springer, 2019).

1. Introduction. New Wave of Revolutions in the MENA Region in the Global Perspective.- 2. Sudan's December Revolution and the Demise of the Al Bashir Regime.- 3. The Crisis of the Rentier State: How the Revolution of Smiles has Brought Down the Sultanistic Regime in Algeria.- 4. 17 October (2019) Revolution in Lebanon, A preliminary analysis.- 5. Revolutionary Protests in Iraq in the Context of Iranian-American Confrontation.- 6. The Roots of the New Wave of Protests in Jordan.- 7. Tunisia. Revolution of Ballot Boxes?.- 8. Egyptian Protests 2019: Harbingers of a New Revolution?.- 9. Revolutionary Events in Mali, 2020-2021.- 10. Sanctions and the Socio-Economic Roots of Iran's Domestic Instability (2010-2020).- 11. Why has the recent wave of revolutions in the MENA region missed Kuwait and Bahrain?.- 12. Conclusion. New Wave of Middle Eastern Revolutionary Events in the World System Context.