Echoes of the “Arab Spring” in the United Arab Emirates
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-5-69-83
Abstract
The work studies the phenomenon of the Arab Spring and its chaotic emergence both in the region as a whole and in the United Arab Emirates in particular, its features, consequences and the state’s reaction to these events. The demands of the formed opposition, its origins and subsequent fate in the context of revolutionary events in the Middle East are analyzed. An important place in the organized opposition is given to the Islyah organization, which is an Emirati cell of Muslim Brotherhood * active during the Arab Spring. The author considers the government countermeasures, political relaxations and simplification of obtaining citizenship for children born in marriage with foreigners. The work also pays attention to the basic principles of state power in the UAE, since they influence the formed demands of the opposition side, mainly represented by the think tanks, and also provide a clear understanding of the scale of individual influence on decisions made in the country by the actual head of state. It in turn, obliges one to study the background and ideological positions of the former president of the federation, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in relation to such important events that affected the entire region of the Middle East and North Africa to varying degrees. The comprehensive approach answers the questions related to the events of the Arab Spring in the Emirates, their basis, solution and consequences for the federation.
About the Author
S. S. Mamedov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Samir S. Mamedov
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Mamedov S.S. Echoes of the “Arab Spring” in the United Arab Emirates. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2024;(5):69-83. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2024-5-69-83
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