The Recruitment of Youth Political Elites During Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe and Arab Mediterranean Countries: A Comparative Approach

SAHWA Scientific Paper nº. 1 (2016)

This paper aims to describe and compare the mechanisms for the recruitment of youth political elites in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Arab Mediterranean countries (AMC) during and after the periods of social and political transformation that were the breakdown of the communist bloc in 1989 and the uprisings in the southern and eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in 2011. While the early expectations were for a similar course of events in the two regions, at present it is the differences in the factors and consequences of the mass mobilisations that capture most scholarly attention.

DOI: doi.org/10.24241/swsp.2016.1.1