Arab Revolution

About year ago, the young merchant of fruit and vegetables Mohammed Bouazizi was sacrificing himself in Sidi Bouzid to denounce the conditions of economic and social life in Tunisia. He did that, by his desperate act, triggered the popular uprising that gave birth to Arab Spring.

On the morning of December 17, 2010, agents of the municipality had confiscated his stand and all his goods. Helpless, humiliated, the 26 years old man was then doused with petrol and had struck a match in the street. The event had led a movement of popular protest in Sidi Bouzid before spreading throughout the country. Nearly a month later uprising, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali had felt compelled to leave office on Jan. 14 after 23 years of reign.

The Tunisian revolution has inspired citizens of neighboring countries, like the Egyptians and Libyans who managed to chase their leader, and its echoes still spill over in the Arab world.

"Spring of nations" in the nineteenth century: The term "spring" Arabic refers to the "spring of nations" of 1848 in Europe. It was a high point on the ideological level that would lead to national unity whether in France, Austria, Italy ect.

Since a little more than a Year, a wind of revolt is blowing in the Arab world, surprising all observers, whether they politicians, governments or embassies in those countries. European states attending, in early 2011, to significant changes in their immediate geostrategic environment. The countries, ruled since independence by authoritarian regimes, are crossed by a wave of democratic contestation.

It is also for Europe the end of twenty years where it focused more towards the east than south. Rightly so. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the USSR, the wars in former Yugoslavia, and the enlargements of 2004 and 2007 to 10 countries of Eastern Europe and the stabilization of the Balkans led to a real policy change.

It is always difficult and risky to assess the impact of an isolated actor in processes such as those taking place for several months in North Africa.

Resons and process of tunisien revolution

Element declencheur:

The Tunisian Revolution of 2010-2011, a revolution is seen as essentially non-violent even though about 338 people were killed and 2,174 were injured during the revolution, which by a series of demonstrations and sit-in for four weeks in December 2010 and January 2011, led to the departure of