Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America

Irene Weipert-Fenner is Project Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.Jonas Wolff is Head of the Research Department “Intrastate Conflict” and executive board member of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany.

• 1. Introduction: Socioeconomic Protests in Times of Political Change—Studying Egypt and Tunisia from a Comparative Perspective.- Part I General Trends.- 2. Beyond Regime Change: The State and the Crisis of Governance in Post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia.- 3. Socioeconomic Contention in Post-2011 Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparison.- Part II Organized Labor.- 4. Organized Labor and Political Change in Latin America: An Overview.- 5. Proposals, Intermediation, and Pressure: The Three Roles of the UGTT in Tunisia’s Post-revolutionary Constitutional Process.- 6. From the Dream of Change to the Nightmare of Structural Weakness: The Trajectory of Egypt’s Independent Trade Union Movement After 2011.- Part III Marginalized Groups.- 7. Contention by Marginalized Groups and Political Change in Latin America: An Overview.- 8. Unemployed Protests in Tunisia: Between Grassroots Activism and Formal Organization.- 9. Mobilized Along the Margins: Survival Strategies of Tuktuk Drivers in Egypt.- Part IV Conclusion.- 10. From North Africa to Latin America and Back: Comparative Findings and Theoretical Reflections.