This month, the RESOLVE Network team’s “What We’re Reading” post features research addressing concepts related to governance, ideas, individuals, and violence in the country of Tunisia. The publications below delve deeper into the dynamics that brought about and characterized the 2011 Tunisian revolution; investigate the governmental, social, and economic discontents that remain in its aftermath; and further explore the rise of violent extremism in Tunisia and possible means by which to address it.

The Political Economy of Governance

“Jihadist Violence in Tunisia: The Urgent Need for a National Strategy.” June 2016. International Crisis Group. https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/north-africa/tunisia/jihadist-violence-tunisia-urgent-need-national-strategy   

Klaas, Brian. “Tumult in Tunisia.” January 2016. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/tunisia/2016-01-31/tumult-tunisia  

Mekouar, Merouan. “Police Collapse in Authoritarian Regimes: Lessons from Tunisia.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (2016). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1239991?journalCode=uter20  

Communicating Belief

Pilongo, Leah, Wilfreda RE , Chona R. Echavez, Pervaiz Tufail, and Sayed Mahdi Mosawi. “A Closer Look at Men and “Masculinities”: Their Proactive Contribution to Gender Equality.” May 2016. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. http://areu.org.af/archives/publication/a-closer-look-at-men-and-masculinities-their-proactive-contribution-to-gender-equality-2 

Torelli, Stefano, Fabio Merone, and Francesco Cavatorta. “Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization.” Middle East Policy 19, no. 4 (2012). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4967.2012.00566.x/abstract  

Intervention Demographics

Berman, Chantel, and Elizabeth R. Nugent. “Defining Political Choices: Tunisia’s Second Democratic Elections from the Ground Up.” May 2015. Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/research/defining-political-choices-tunisias-second-democratic-elections-from-the-ground-up/  

Fahmi, Georges, and Hamza Meddeb. “Market for Jihad: Radicalization in Tunisia.” October 2015. Carnegie Middle East Center. http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/10/15/market-for-jihad-radicalization-in-tunisia-pub-61629 

Malka, Haim, and Margo Balboni. “Tunisia: Radicalism Abroad and at Home.” June 2016. Center for Strategic and International Studies. http://foreignfighters.csis.org/tunisia/why-tunisia.html  

Political Violence

“Nigeria: Women and the Boko Haram Insurgency.” December 2016. International Crisis Group. https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/west-africa/nigeria/nigeria-women-and-boko-haram-insurgency   

“Nigeria: Women and the Boko Haram Insurgency.” December 2016. International Crisis Group. https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/west-africa/nigeria/nigeria-women-and-boko-haram-insurgency