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Accepted Paper:

Uprisings in north Africa (Dec 2010 - Dec 2012): local and global dynamisms / Les révoltes en Afrique du Nord (décembre 2010 - décembre 2012): dynamismes locaux et globaux  
Tayeb Chenntouf (Université d'Oran)

Paper short abstract:

The paper examin local and global dynamics during the uprinsing in North Africa ( Dec 2010-dec2012)

Paper long abstract:

At the end of 2010, many uprisings had brook up in the whole of North Africa Algeria,Tunisia,Lybia,Morroco,Egypt) and put an end the authoritarian regimes well-entrenched since the years 1950-1960 .

These uprisings called for new political regimes based on dignity, social justice and democracy.

Soon after ,mass-medias and several writings and books had pointed out the "Foreign Conspiracy " sheme which spread out all over North Africa as well in Europe and United States .The "Foreign Conspiracy" sheme seems to have been underscored by the NATO intervention in Libya.

The present paper looks at the issue of whether those uprisings are outcome of the play of Global Geopolitics or result of internal dynamism of the North African societies.

In this regard,

1- The "Foreign conspiracy" sheme is tackled within this presentation

2- The events facts (outbreak ,political and social mobilization, fall of authoritarian regimes) are also being examined in the paper

3- The role of internal dynamisms with the outburst of the masses in politics is, at last, addressed.

Panel P139
Recovering the dynamism of African people: contemporaneous history (20th and 21st centuries)
  Session 1