scholarly journals Secrecy, spies and the global South: intelligence studies beyond the ‘Five Eyes’ alliance

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 1313-1329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zakia Shiraz ◽  
Richard J. Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Arab Spring

Abstract The study of secrecy and spies remain subjects dominated by Anglo-American experiences. In recent years there has been some effort to refocus the lens of research upon ‘intelligence elsewhere’, including the global South. This is partly because of intense interest in the Arab Spring and ‘managed democracy’, placing a wider range of secret services under the spotlight. However, the approach to research is still dominated by concepts and methods derived from studying the English-speaking states of the ‘Five Eyes’ alliance and their European outriders. This article calls for a re-examination of research strategies for Intelligence Studies and for those theorizing surveillance, suggesting that both fields have much to learn from area studies and development studies, especially in the realm of research practice and ethics. If the growing number of academics specializing in intelligence genuinely wish to move forward and examine the global South they will need to rethink their tool-kit and learn from other disciplines. We suggest there is a rich tradition to draw upon.

Comparative Area Studies and the Analytical Challenge of Diffusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel I. Ahram
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Science Inquiry ◽  
Analytical Challenge ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Single Study ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter examines the contribution of comparative area studies (CAS) in explaining global diffusionary processes. Diffusion is a methodological and theoretical challenge to all social science inquiry. CAS innovates beyond traditional area studies by emphasizing three distinct comparative strategies: intra-regional, interregional, and cross-regional. Each strategy rests on different ontological bases and deploys different logics to explain its comparative choices. Collectively, though, these three approaches provide an integrated perspective on how political processes transcend national and regional boundaries. In using the example of the Arab Spring, the chapter demonstrates the utility of CAS in explaining how protests spread so quickly, how regimes responded, and why they had different impacts in different regimes. Ultimately, no single methodology—much less a single study—can adequately capture every dimension of diffusion. Collaboration between induction and deductive, between idiographic and nomothetic tendencies, is key.

Resonance of the Arab Spring: Solidarities and youth opinion in the Global South

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 290-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam K Webb
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Global South ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Political Opportunity Structures ◽  
Multiple Frequencies ◽  
The Arab Spring

The Arab Spring exemplifies to many a kind of globalisation from below. It cuts across borders and challenges liberal and technocratic élites. But how far does its global resonance really go? Are publics still largely corralled within national political spaces? Are waves of revolt confined by civilisational breakwaters? Or is the cosmopolitan space that many leftists envision taking shape? Based on a three-country survey of university students, this article probes these assumptions. It finds far-reaching solidarity with the aspirations of the Arab Spring, driven by the rise of a cross-border global society. But on probing the bases of such solidarity, it also finds that the cosmopolitan cohort emerging in the Global South does not fit a simple liberal or leftist mould. The Arab Spring resonates on multiple frequencies at the same time. This complex cosmopolitanism has implications for layers of common ground as global political opportunity structures emerge.

scholarly journals Die Proteste der Refugees

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (177) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Plöger
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Global South ◽  
Transnational Network ◽  
Global North ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Eu

For the first time refugee and migrant protests have developed into a social movement in Germany. The refugee movement is also part of a transnational network, which has developed during and in accordance with the current protest cycle started by the Arab Spring. Broad mobilizations spring from this movement but have not yet let to substantial changes due to the post-crisis restructuring of the EU with „margin“ and „central“ countries. While the neoliberal restructuring in the global south is causing the „production of migration“ to speed up, also the „99 percent“ in the global north are concerned. The migrant and refugee movement is challenging the base of this neoliberal agenda as it aims at the functioning of deterrence, control and deprivation in the global south and north.

Unhappy Development: Dissatisfaction with Life in the Wake of the Arab Spring

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efstratia Arampatzi ◽  
Martijn Burger ◽  
Elena Ianchovichina ◽  
Tina Röhricht ◽  
Ruut Veenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
The Arab Spring

Cracking national integration after the events (the Arab Spring) and its impact On regional stability

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Muhannad Al Janabi Al Janabi
Keyword(s):  
Arab Spring ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Regional Stability ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Arab Region ◽  
Political Media ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Arab Spring

Since late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab region has witnessed mass protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain and other countries that have been referred to in the political, media and other literature as the Arab Spring. These movements have had a profound effect on the stability of the regimes Which took place against it, as leaders took off and contributed to radical reforms in party structures and public freedoms and the transfer of power, but it also contributed to the occurrence of many countries in an internal spiral, which led to the erosion of the state from the inside until it became a prominent feature of the Arab) as is the case in Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq.

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