Date of Award
5-27-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Political Science, MA
First Advisor
Rollin Tusalem
Committee Members
Cameron Wimpy; Jordan Butcher
Call Number
LD 251 .A566t 2021 D44
Abstract
Globalization has been argued by scholars to be a facilitating force for development and economic growth. Others point to how globalization may lead to demobilization and atomization. In an ever-increasing globalized world, formerly closed off societies are now coming into contact with ideas, beliefs, customs, and products like no other time in History. I seek to examine the clash of centuries old-traditional cultures within the Middle East and North Africa and the encroaching dominance of Western Consumer-Culture spurred by the Globalization process. Particularly in how it relates to political unrest in the form of Anti-State Demonstrations. I find that the more global interactions received by these societies the higher propensity these societies have to engage in Anti-State Demonstration
Rights Management
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Deere, Joel R., "McRage Against the Machine: Cultural Expansion and Anti-State Demonstrations in the MENA Region" (2021). Student Theses and Dissertations. 353.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/353
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