Současné protesty v Alžírsku

Šorm, Vít

Protests in the Arab world during 2010-2011, also called Arab Revolutions and or the Arab Spring, lead to the fall of several autocratic regimes, the rise of new dictators, and a few civil wars. Although the wave of uprisings flooded many states of the Middle East and North Africa, the intensity and duration of the protests varied widely. Algeria was seemingly unaffected by these events. There, massive protests took place eight years later after the long-serving president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his candidacy for a new term. The goal of this research will be to answer the question of why where the 2019 protests in Algeria considerably more widespread than in 2011. This will be done, firstly, by studying the causes of the weak participation in the 2011 protests proposed in the academic literature. Secondly, the dissertation will compare existing explanations to the context of the 2019 protests. The study will focus on whether these explanations are still up to date, whether they lost or gained importance or whether these assumptions were flawed since the beginning. It asks the question of what led to such widespread protests in Algeria in 2019 in comparison to 2011? Did the opposition unity affect the protests in both years? What was its role, and did it have any impact on the size and...

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