Tunisian Revolution

Just about any country that one can name has some history of civil unrest, class issues, rioting in the streets, and outright warfare. These patterns of behavior are common denominators for most civilization in the world. The names, faces, and places may change, but the motivations are generally the same, because of the need for change and the willingness to do whatever is necessary to achieve it. In contrast to the United States, which was in the process of freeing itself from British colonial rule, France was working to free itself from royal absolutism. This period is historically known as the French Revolution. Many scholars do not agree on the chronology of the French Revolution; some scholars suggest that the Revolution took place between 1789 to 1799 while others feel that it did not end until Napoleon lost power in 1815. To better understand the history of the French Revolution it is necessary to discuss the causes, major events, significant figures, and the outcomes associated with these political developments. Without this uprising, that changed the face of the entire country and influenced local political life in many countries in Europe, in all likelihood the France we know today would never have existed.

These three eras of revolution showcase various changes and continuities. The three-hundred year span features revolutions that started because of an assortment of different reasons, while many of them are practically duplicates in their results of the conflict, such as a government being abolished. Although these revolutions present diverse changes over time, the essence of almost every revolution in all three time periods reveals significant continuities between them.

Many times when people revolt against the government, it leaves the country in a worse spot that it was before. Throughout history there have been many revolutions in many different places. Two of the most significant have been the American Revolution, from the 1700’s, and more recently the Egyptian revolution from 2011. Both of these revolutions have many similarities within each other, but they also have many actions to contrast. The topics being compared include; how the revolutions started. The demands of the revolting groups. Lastly, what the two groups did to protest against the government.

Autocrats suppress or censor information regarding the possibility of collective actions that disestablishes the regime, this process can be made disallowing website from operating in the country, blocking banned words and phrases, “hand censoring” (King et al., 2013), having their own social media (King et al., 2014) among other

During a period of new ideas known as the Enlightenment, there were several people who worked to reform the way life was. These people are known as revolutionaries. Some important revolutionaries are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robespierre, Marat, Danton, and Toussaint L’Overture. All of these people fought to make a change. According to “The French Revolution” video, Robespierre was a leader of the French Revolution who called for liberty, equality, and fraternity. He encouraged the use of the death penalty and insisted that they behead the King. He was fighting against an unjust monarchy and unfair taxing. Although Robespierre was killed, the Revolution lived on and the monarchy was overthrown. Another important revolutionary was Toussaint L’Overture.

Revolution was initially a very popular uprising against the absolute power of the king and control of the king against privileges and wealth of elite and was perpetrated in the name of liberty, in the equality and also the fraternity. In reality, it was also led to the loss of freedom, dictatorship, and even nationalism. Revolution was first based on a hatred of the tradition and desire to be able to use the power of the state to be able to create a very new order (Thakor, 2013, ). The violence was a common and also essential portion of both French and Haitian revolutions, and even methods which were practiced and reasons for it being utilized had some of the distinct similarities. To be able to understand why the members of

When a revolution begins, there is always a cause behind it and most of time it 's the government 's unfair treatment to its citizens. Inequality can come in many different types, such as

The Arab Spring was a very important public movement against tyranny because people want to be free, fed, have freedom of speech, etc. In Islamic understanding, this movement was totally foolish because any Islamic government uses theocratic tyranny to govern its people. In this manner public rebellions occurred during the Arab Spring. Today, the Turkish Government want to change the regime from democracy into theocratic tyranny because in theocratic tyranny, the dictators will be fed, not the people. The Middle East needs more democracy to heal

The revolution was your first international crisis intervention since the day you took office, nothing new there. You began with the help of CIA aiding and arming the rebellion forces to topple Gaddafi. This was no secret due to the fact that the Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Mike Mullen Joint Chiefs Chairman testified that small squadrons of CIA operatives were working in Libya. According to a report by The New York Times, the Central Intelligence Agency collected Intel for military airstrikes against Qaddafi as well as supporting the rebels in the fight. However, little was said about the identity or their ideological thoughts of these fighting insurgents. Why could that be? Not shocking considering the fact that the leader Abdel-Hakim

Stage 3: It all began by Mohammed Bouazizi protesting government corruption by setting himself on fire. This inspired street protests throughout the country against high unemployment and poverty of the citizens. They wanted their leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to step down.

On December 17, 2010, the Arab Spring began in Tunisia unexpectedly. It started after Muhammed Bouazizi- a twenty six year old street vendor- set himself on fire to protest police harassment in the central town of Sidi Bouzid. He was not alone in his indignity. The young in Tunisia tended to very

President Bourguiba, Ben Ali’s predecessor, marked his reign—which lasted 30 years—with imposed “modernization” and complete disregard of Islamic principles like Ramadan and the hijab (Danahar, 2013, p. 44). Despite his title as president, Bourguiba failed to uphold democracy with the Tunisian one-party system. According to Paul Danahar in his book The New Middle East (2013), “when he [Bourguiba] was asked during the early years of independence about the country’s political system, he replied: ‘The system? What system? I am the system!’” (p. 44). After Ben Ali took Bourguiba’s place as president following his apparent (and formally declared) disintegration in 1987, he spoke of democratic reforms and the opening of the political system to other parties (Cavatorta & Haugbølle, 2012, p. 187; Danahar, 2013, p. 45). However, during his reign from 1987 up to the early protests following the Bouazizi’s act of desperation and ultimate death, Ben Ali failed to live up to his promises. Slow progress was made at the beginning, but democratic reforms halted quickly followed by excuses. First, Ben Ali claimed he could not implement excessive change too quickly “in order to avoid the problems that Algeria encountered in the same period” (Cavatorta & Haugbølle, 2012, p. 188). Later, his regime brushed aside postponements of more reforms with the excuse of the attack on September 11, 2001, asserting the issue of extremism infiltrating Tunisia and the democratic system if democratic reforms are implemented at the time (Cavatorta & Haugbølle, 2012, p. 188). Ben Ali’s failed to uphold his initial promises, and it was apparent. As a form of corruption, this failure resonated with the people of Tunisia, realizing that their president ran their country as a

The Chinese government had enforced these rules and regulations through blocking, filtering and shutting down Internet cafes. According to Amnesty International, the Chinese government routinely blocks news sites, especially those with dissident views or banned groups. Anniversary’s such as the 1989 pro-democracy protests are heavily guarded days that see increase Internet blocking. Internet blocking of major search gateways is also

Throughout history many societies have, and will likely continue to have revolutions as we as humans strive towards a utopian society. Each and every one of these revolution follows some pattern, a pattern that most often includes a great number of civilian casualties. But what is it that pushes such revolutions forward? Why have people risked and given their lives fighting against their own leadership? Looking at both the French Revolution and the Arab Spring can help uncover the answer to these questions, as for people to willingly risk their lives, they must have been living in destitute situations. Both of these societies did indeed have many social and economic problems, as well as a poor quality of life, specifically for the bottom class, or in the case of the French Revolution, the Third Estate. It is because of these issues that the people stood up to their leaders and demanded a better life, overtaking the government in the process.

In late 2010, a Tunisian named Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest against the poor economic situation in which he was living (CNN, 2011). Other Tunisians soon took the opportunity to resist their government and possible overthrow the leadership of Ben Ali. They took it as their responsibility to fight for the common good. Simple demonstration against the Tunisian government soon went ahead to an extent that Ben Ali had to leave the country. The events that followed the departures of the Tunisian president were the least expected. The revolts in Tunisia spurred citizens of other Arab nations to revolt against their governments. By the end of the years 2011, the Arab spring had claimed the presidency of three long serving presidents and