Justin O. Frosini - Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa: Actors and Factors

The transformations which are taking place in the Arab world are dynamic processes characterized by a number of variables that one can refer to as actors and factors .

The implications of the Arab uprisings are important for the world at large; the Arab worlds successes, and failures, at this crucial moment may well serve as a model for other nations. Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa focuses on five Northern African countries: Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Libya and Algeria, examining specific institutions and actors participating in the political upheavals in North Africa since 2011, and placing them in a comparative perspective in order to better understand the processes at work. This book addresses issues pertinent to North African and Middle Eastern Studies, comparative constitutional law, political science and transitional studies and it contains contributions by experts in all these fields.

Providing a significant contribution to the understanding of events that followed the immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, this book is a valuable contribution to North African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Comparative Constitutional Law and Transitional Studies.

Justin O. Frosini is Assistant Professor of Public Law at the Bocconi University in Milan, Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD) in Bologna and Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe. He is the author of Constitutional Preambles: At a Crossroads between Politics and Law (2012) as well as several articles and book chapters in the field of comparative constitutional law with particular attention for federalism, regionalism and devolution, constitutional justice and forms of government.

Francesco Biagi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bolognas School of Law and researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD). He is the author of several articles and book chapters focusing on transitions to democracy, constitution-building, constitutional justice and electoral justice. In 2012 his research on Constitutional Courts in Democratic Transitions: The Cases of Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic was awarded best Ph.D. thesis in Constitutional Law at the University of Ferrara by the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS).

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Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa
Actors and Factors
Justin O. Frosini and Francesco Biagi

Actors and Factors

Edited by
Justin O. Frosini and Francesco Biagi

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Political and constitutional transitions in North Africa: actors and factors /
edited by Justin Frosini & Francesco Biagi.
pages cm. - (Routledge studies in Middle Eastern democratization and
government; 7)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Africa, North-Politics and government-21st century. 2. Arab countries
Politics and government-21st century. 3. Democratization-Africa, North.
4. Democratization-Arab countries. 5. Constitutional law-Africa, North.
6. Constitutional law-Arab countries. 7. Arab Spring, 2010- I. Frosini, Justin
Orlando, editor of compilation. II. Biagi, Francesco, editor of compilation.
JQ3198.A58P64 2014
320.961-dc23
2014021703

ISBN: 978-1-138-81638-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-74614-2 (ebk)

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Francesco Biagi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bolognas School of Law and researcher at the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD). Biagi obtained a Ph.D. in constitutional law from the University of Ferrara after graduating in law from the University of Bologna. In 2012 his research on Constitutional Courts in Democratic Transitions: The Cases of Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic was awarded best Ph.D. thesis in Constitutional Law at the University of Ferrara by the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS). He is the author of articles and book chapters focusing on transitions to democracy, constitution-building, constitutional justice, electoral justice and federalism. He is currently coordinating a project on the constitutional transitions in North Africa. His latest publications include: The 2011 Constitutional Reform in Morocco: More Flaws than Merits, Jean Monnet Occasional Papers , Institute for European Studies (Malta), no. 7/2014; Will Surviving Constitutionalism in Morocco and Jordan Work in the Long Run? A Comparison with Three Past Authoritarian Regimes, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law , vol. 3 (3), 2014 (forthcoming); Three Generations of European Constitutional Courts in Transition to Democracy, Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo , no. 2, 2014 (forthcoming).