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The Resource Managing transition : the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya, Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins University

Managing transition : the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya, Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins University

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Managing transition : the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya
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Managing transition
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the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya
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Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins University
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eng
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"On 13 January 2011, Tunisian President Zine al Abidine Ben Ali appeared on national television in an attempt to quiet a powerful anti-government uprising that had begun four weeks earlier. He announced a series of sweeping democratic reforms and price cuts and promised that he would not seek reelection. At the end of the speech, delivered in the local dialect, Ben Ali alluded to Charles de Gaulle's famous 1958 remarks in Algiers in which he told the French settlers of the colony that was fighting bitterly for its independence "I have understood you" ("fahimtikum.") The Tunisian people's response to Ben Ali was "get out" ("dégage.") The next day, the government declared a state of emergency. Ben Ali fired nearly his entire cabinet and announced that legislative elections would take place within six months. Yet thousands of Tunisians took to the streets demanding Ben Ali's immediate resignation. They gathered first in front of the headquarters of the national trade union, l'Union Générale des Travailleurs Tunisiens (UGTT), at Mohammed Ali square, then moved to the front of the Ministry of Interior. Around five o'clock that evening, President Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, boarded a plane for Saudi Arabia in exile"--
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Henneberg, Sabina,
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non fiction
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  • Tunisia
  • Interim governments
  • Tunisia
  • Libya
  • Interim governments
  • Libya
  • Arab Spring, 2010-
  • Interim governments
  • Politics and government
  • Libya
  • Tunisia
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Managing transition : the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya, Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins University
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-255) and index
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  • txt
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rdacontent
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1202730318
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24 cm
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xv, 266 pages
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9781108842006
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2020041015
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)1202730318
Label
Managing transition : the first post-uprising phase in Tunisia and Libya, Sabina Henneberg, Johns Hopkins University
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-255) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
1202730318
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
xv, 266 pages
Isbn
9781108842006
Lccn
2020041015
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1202730318

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