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The conventional narrative of the causes and consequences of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ tends to focus on the idea of a democratic deficit in the region as the primary trigger, but fails to integrate this with a wider vision of the range of factors involved.
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Ahmed, N.M. (2017). Biophysical Triggers of Crisis Convergence in the Middle East. In: Failing States, Collapsing Systems. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47816-6_7
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