LEADER 02343nam 22004213a 450 001 9910557131903321 005 20240214191928.0 035 $a(CKB)5400000000040734 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64258 035 $a(ScCtBLL)21cb998c-33d1-45c7-a734-d1f5c3252dfb 035 $a(EXLCZ)995400000000040734 100 $a20231108i20212023 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aTHE POLITICS OF PANDEMICS $eEvolving Regime-opposition Dynamics in the MENA Region /$fKarim Mezran, Annalisa Perteghella 210 1$aMilano, Italy :$cLedizioni-Ledipublishing,$d2021. 215 $a1 electronic resource (109 pages) 225 0 $aISPI Publications. 311 $a88-5526-380-3 330 $aThe Covid-19 pandemic could not have come at a worse time, as many countries in the MENA region remain engulfed in vicious internal conflicts or must cope with structural socio-economic distress and popular dissent. In many respects, such a context and many of its problems resemble those that formed the backdrop for the Arab Spring in 2011. Exactly like what happens with humans, who are hit the hardest when presenting pre-existing conditions, MENA states have been impacted because of their own pre-existing conditions. In this sense, the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare all the vulnerabilities and deficiencies of these states' structures, and has aggravated pre-existing political, social, and economic shortcomings. How has the pandemic impacted state structures? What is its effect on organized protests and spontaneous popular movements? What are the possible long-term consequences? 606 $aGeopolitics$2bicssc 607 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aNorth Africa$xPolitics and government$y21st century 607 $aMiddle East$xSocial conditions$y21st century 607 $aNorth Africa$xSocial conditions$y21st century 610 00$aGeopolitica$aAfrica$aPandemia$aMedioriente 615 7$aGeopolitics 702 $aMezran$b Karim K. 702 $aPerteghella$b Annalisa 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557131903321 996 $aTHE POLITICS OF PANDEMICS$93874530 997 $aUNINA