… the level of wheat imports in the months immediately after the outbreak of the Arab Spring in
… The remainder of this article is structured as follows: section 2 describes the role of wheat in …

… while significant indirect causes of the Arab Spring received little mention. Important economic
… The influence of Chinese drought on global wheat prices through wheat purchases, and …

… ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011, a regional revolution which started in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid
in late 2010, occurred in part as a result of drought-triggered high wheat … of wheat yield loss …

… wheat trade, responded by imposing an export ban on wheat, … The Arab Spring would likely
have come one way or another, … Global warming may not have caused the Arab Spring, but it …

… Economic development, or lack thereof, was a contributing factor to the Arab-Spring uprising,
and it is … In 2008 Saudi Arabia started to phase out its subsidised wheat programme (until …

… Rising food prices played a role in fomenting Arab Spring … exacerbating the policies that
contributed to the Arab Spring. … up the door to subsidized wheat from the United States and …

… This causal relationship is illustrated through a comparative analysis of three Arab Spring
cases, Egypt, Syria, and Morocco, using the Process-Tracing Method. While this research does …

… The events of 2011 known as the “Arab spring” have the … be possible to leverage the Arab
spring in an ongoing process … Unfortunately, the emergence of the Arab spring has coincided …

… For this essay I define this effort in three broad ways: Western governments and observers
defining the ‘Arab Spring’ on their own terms, especially in naming responsibility for the social …

… There are familiar echoes of this in the Arab spring—be it the Trabelsi family of Tunisia,
Ahmed Ezz of Egypt, or Rami Makhlouf of Syria. Such crony capitalism denies a level playing …