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On The Political Development Of Tunisia After The Cold War

Posted on:2014-09-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W H DuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2256330401490252Subject:Political science
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After the end of the cold war, influenced by rapid changes of international pattern,Tunisia staged a bloodless coup "mansion", the prime minister Ben ali with the backing ofthe military successfully replaced habib bourguiba took over the country’s President. In itsearly, Ben ali’s government, received wide support from all walks of life, we formulatedand implemented a series of basic policies conducive to the development of nationalpolitics. But with the advancement of the Tunisian politics democratization, Ben ali’sgovernment gradually lost effective control of degree of democratic reform. Combinedwith the long-term existence of authoritarian rule, makes the social contradictionsaccumulate and gradually deteriorated, finally broke out in late2010and early2011nationwide unrest. Western society called the Tunisian revolution "jasmine revolution".Riots in Tunisia, within one month of direct force the regime protests against thegovernment’s strength. President zine el-abidine Ben ali left Saudi Arabia, ended his for23years in power."Jasmine revolution" has a great impact on west Asia north Africa (mena).Its protest model also for people in other countries follow (such as Algeria, Egypt, etc.),lead to anti-government protests across west Asia north Africa in a month. Political andgeopolitical pattern of the change in the Middle East has a huge influence.In this paper, the systemic research on the Tunisian political development after thecold war. After20years of history evolution, Tunisia from political democracy, economicprosperity, social stability of national situation gradually become a failure, the chaos of theunrest, conflict led to countries. Before the "jasmine revolution", Tunisia under Ben aliautocratic dictatorship showed many disadvantages: government corruption, deeplyserious; Livelihood issues highlighted, democratic deepening contradiction, youthunemployment is serious; The gap between rich and poor is serious. National overalleconomic development level is low, the industrial structure is relatively single, facing theproblems such as inflation and unemployment has stayed high. These contradictoryintensification of social development and economic development eventually led to theTunisian nationwide social upheaval.Tunisia’s political development of China’s democratic political construction, socialgovernance structure and perfect, deepen system reform, speed up the economicdevelopment has a profound significance. In the future, Tunisia’s political developmentwill be faced with many challenges, the new government to lead the country out of political, economic, and social turmoil, complete regime reformation, the important task ofeconomic recovery and social stability. Can say that the new government facing thesituation is very grim, one of the most urgent task is how to maintain social stability assoon as possible, to rebuild social order, make the country’s economic construction andPeople’s Daily life back to normal track. Therefore, to maintain a stable situation is theprecondition to solve these problems. Can only restore political stability as soon aspossible, Tunisia finally out of the current political turmoil.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tunisia, political development, Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution
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