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Partners
The Compagnia di San Paolo
University L’Orientale
in Naples
This series of policy briefs provides a regular update
of debates concerning key rights issues in three Arab
states, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia. In a first round
of briefs on the three countries, we provide
background on these debates since the beginning of
the Arab spring.
Arab Citizenship Review No. 1 - Egypt
By Moataz El Fegiery and Ragab Saad, Cairo
Institute for Human Rights Studies
The University of Warwick
European Policy Centre
Arab Citizenship Review No. 2 - Morocco
By Ward Vloeberghs and Youssef Benkirane,
CERAM / Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie de
Rabat, Morocco
German Marshall Fund
Cairo Institute for Human
Rights Studies
Arab Citizenship Review No. 3 - Tunisia
By Ahmed Driss, Centre for Mediterranean and
International Studies
The Centre for Research
on Africa and the Mediterranean
Centre for Mediterranean
and International Studies
The first objective of the project is to understand
the ways in which the concept of democratic
polity, and one of its structural components,
citizenship, is understood by different social and
political forces in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Against the background of a comparison between
Western and Arab interpretations of rights, the
project examines which social and political forces
advocate the expansion or limitations of some
specific rights. Analyzing discourses and debates
surrounding rights provides unique lenses for an
innovative and informative analysis of these
transitions.
The second objective of the project is to analyze
to what extent international actors are redefining
their democracy assistance policies as a
consequence of the epochal changes and the actual
shapes North African polities are evolving into.
Through discourse analysis and in-depth
interviews, we look in particular at the ‘world
views’ behind democracy assistance by US and
EU policymakers. Understanding the changes that
the experience of the Arab Awakening may have
triggered in Western policies towards MENA will
also contribute to reformulating actor-based
conceptions of their international role. The ways
in which the US and the EU will redefine their
goals and engagement paradigms will have an
impact on the model they claim to pursue and on
the theoretical understandings of their role.