Lahouari Addi, a native of Algeria, is associate professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Lyons, France, and visiting professor of political science at the University of Utah.
When this small island kingdom in the Gulf joined the wider Arab world’s political upheavals in March 2011, it was a reaction to regional events, but also a reflection of…
Once again, a reformist electoral victory has been followed by political setbacks. The key to understanding this paradoxical pattern lies in the unique theocratic constitutional structure of the Islamic Republic.
