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Identitas Dan Kebijakan Luar Negeri: Konstruksi Identitas Dalam Kebijakan Luar Negeri Tunisia Pasca Revolusi, Faizul Ibad, Abdul Muta’Ali

Journal Of Middle East and Islamic Studies

This study aims to examine the construction of identity in post-revolutionary Tunisian foreign policy. This research is interesting because Tunisia is the only country in the Middle East that has successfully passed the Arab Spring wave and formed a democratic government. While many other Arab countries did not make it through the wave of democratization, some of them even fell into protracted civil conflict. The polarization of Arab countries as a result of the Arab spring has caused fragmentation among other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates tried to block the revolution because it would threaten the …