Social Contracts in the MENA – Drivers of Change
Bonn, 24. August 2022
Aspirations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to improve state-society relations predate the Arab uprisings in 2010-11 (e.g. Algeria 1991-2002, Iran 1998). However, developments after 2011 fell well short of meeting these aspirations in most MENA countries. Considerable bodies of literature now use the social contract ‘lens’ for…