A comparative study of Yemen and Libya Uprisings: Weak States Role

The Arab uprisings that swept across all Arab countries in MENA, except for Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, in early 2011 have a great impression on their international Agencies. According to the reactions and results of uprisings, states could be divided into four parts. First, the Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Morocco could ride the uprising wave in their homes and to somewhat utilized these events in favor of their national interests. Second, Tunisia and Egypt experienced a superficial revolution which is called Refolution (reformist revolution); in this case, remnants of the last system in the shape of a deep state challenge revolutionary flows and then by a coup d'etat or a fraud in election system returned to power. Third, Bahrain and Syria are alike from governing minority on the majority and foreign inventions on democratic and legal crowd demand perspective. Finally, the Yemen and Libya Uprisings have some commonalities like breaking out civil war, leading public demands to the violation, radical Islamic groups’ actions and so on that brought about a general situation in which these states collapsed. I believe that both of Yemen and Libya suffered from lack of society-state complex before erupting revolts. I will try to study some common elements in starting and conducting 2011 uprisings within Yemen and Libya behind Historical Sociology lenses.