Author: April Longley Alley | Journal of Democracy

Articles by April Longley Alley:

October 2013, Volume 24, Issue 4

Tracking the “Arab Spring”: Yemen Changes Everything… And Nothing

April Longley Alley

A long-ruling strongman president has been unseated by popular unrest and a negotiated transition is under way, but to many Yemenis this all appears to be a change more of appearance than of substance.

October 2010, Volume 21, Issue 4

Yemen’s Multiple Crises

April Longley Alley

Yemen today finds itself gripped by a set of crises that threatens its very unity as a country. Only a turn toward democratic dialogue offers a way out.

Books:

Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond

The uprisings that swept the Arab world beginning in 2010 toppled four entrenched rulers and seemed to create a political opening in a region long impervious to democratization.