Muriel Asseburg is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and questions of state building, political reform and political Islam in the Arab world as well as German, European and US Middle East policies. She recently published Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World. Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options (2012).Heiko Wimmen has been a researcher with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since 2009 with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria. In addition, he pursues a PhD project on political activism and social mobilization in divided societies of the Middle East and the Balkans. Recent publications include Democratic Transition in the Middle East. Unmaking power (2012) and Emerging Powers and the Middle East (2010).

• 1. Introduction: Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World 2. Managing Change: How Egypt's Military Leadership Shaped the Transformation 3. Youth Movements in the Egyptian Transformation: Strategies and Repertoires of Political Participation 4.Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building 5. Mobilized Publics in Post-Qadhafi Libya: The Emergence of New Modes of Popular Protest in Tripoli and Ubari 6. Islamists, Secularists and Old Regime Elites in Tunisia: Bargained Competition 7. Contested Transformation: Mobilized Publics in Tunisia between Compliance and Protest 8. Political Bargaining and Violent Conflict: Shifting Elite Alliances as the Decisive Factor in Yemen’s Transformation 9. Yemen’s Enduring Resistance: Youth Between Politics and Informal Mobilization 10. Conclusion: Explaining the Arab Uprisings: Transformations in comparative perspective

Muriel Asseburg is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and questions of state building, political reform and political Islam in the Arab world as well as German, European and US Middle East policies. She recently published Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World. Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options (2012).Heiko Wimmen has been a researcher with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since 2009 with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria. In addition, he pursues a PhD project on political activism and social mobilization in divided societies of the Middle East and the Balkans. Recent publications include Democratic Transition in the Middle East. Unmaking power (2012) and Emerging Powers and the Middle East (2010).

• 1. Introduction: Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World 2. Managing Change: How Egypt's Military Leadership Shaped the Transformation 3. Youth Movements in the Egyptian Transformation: Strategies and Repertoires of Political Participation 4.Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building 5. Mobilized Publics in Post-Qadhafi Libya: The Emergence of New Modes of Popular Protest in Tripoli and Ubari 6. Islamists, Secularists and Old Regime Elites in Tunisia: Bargained Competition 7. Contested Transformation: Mobilized Publics in Tunisia between Compliance and Protest 8. Political Bargaining and Violent Conflict: Shifting Elite Alliances as the Decisive Factor in Yemen’s Transformation 9. Yemen’s Enduring Resistance: Youth Between Politics and Informal Mobilization 10. Conclusion: Explaining the Arab Uprisings: Transformations in comparative perspective

Muriel Asseburg is a Senior Fellow in the Middle East and Africa Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. Her research focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict and questions of state building, political reform and political Islam in the Arab world as well as German, European and US Middle East policies. She recently published Protest, Revolt and Regime Change in the Arab World. Actors, Challenges, Implications and Policy Options (2012).Heiko Wimmen has been a researcher with Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) since 2009 with a special focus on Lebanon and Syria. In addition, he pursues a PhD project on political activism and social mobilization in divided societies of the Middle East and the Balkans. Recent publications include Democratic Transition in the Middle East. Unmaking power (2012) and Emerging Powers and the Middle East (2010).

• 1. Introduction: Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization in the Arab World 2. Managing Change: How Egypt's Military Leadership Shaped the Transformation 3. Youth Movements in the Egyptian Transformation: Strategies and Repertoires of Political Participation 4.Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building 5. Mobilized Publics in Post-Qadhafi Libya: The Emergence of New Modes of Popular Protest in Tripoli and Ubari 6. Islamists, Secularists and Old Regime Elites in Tunisia: Bargained Competition 7. Contested Transformation: Mobilized Publics in Tunisia between Compliance and Protest 8. Political Bargaining and Violent Conflict: Shifting Elite Alliances as the Decisive Factor in Yemen’s Transformation 9. Yemen’s Enduring Resistance: Youth Between Politics and Informal Mobilization 10. Conclusion: Explaining the Arab Uprisings: Transformations in comparative perspective