Nadine Sika
Biographic Data
| ID | 2064579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Sika |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sika |
| SIGNATURE | SIKA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University in Cairo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1225-5230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
There and back again: Democratization, autocratization and democratic resilience
The article introduces the “Fifty Years of the Third Wave” special issue of Democratization. The special issue brings together 11 contributions which commemorate the 50th anniversary of the start of the Third Wave of Democratization with Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in 1974. Together, they take stock of the state of democracy globally and regionally. They discuss historical and recent trends in democratization and autocratization, the performa…
Civil Society and Activism in the Middle East: Regime Breakdown vs. Regime Continuity
This book analyses the impact of repression on civil society activism in the Middle East through the cases of Egypt and Jordan. It argues that authoritarian regimes’ repressive strategies towards civil society actors vary depending on an authoritarian regime’s recent historical experience with regime breakdown and/or continuity. Authoritarian regimes that go through breakdown and that transition from one autocratic rule to another increase repres…
The consequences of trust and repression on the rise and fall of movements in authoritarian regimes
This article analyzes the relation between interpersonal trust, repression, mobilization, and demobilization in authoritarian regimes. Does interpersonal trust impact mobilization in authoritarian regimes? Does an authoritarian regime’s strategies of repression and cooptation fuel distrust among movement actors and consequently lead to demobilization? Through relying on qualitative analysis in Egypt in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising, …
Trust and social movements: A new research agenda
Social movement studies clearly suggest that trust matters for processes of social mobilization: When engaging in costly, and potentially risky, contentious collective action on a common goal, activists and groups rely on the expectation that fellow protestors and allies will not fail them. To date, however, we lack research that explains which types of trust shape the emergence and evolution of social movements. Trust, we argue, is not simply an…
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan
In 2018 new economic reform measures were implemented in Egypt and Jordan under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund. These measures were met with public outrage in both countries. In Jordan, mass mobilization, demonstrations and strikes took place, lasted for a month and ended in policy concessions. In Egypt, however, only few independent demonstrations erupted, no mass mobilization occurred, and no policy concessions were enacted by …
Books for Review
Activism and contentious politics in Egypt
This chapter explores how student activism in Egypt influences contentious politics within a polity, and conversely how the dynamics of contention within an authoritarian regime can influence student activism on campus. Findings from in-depth interviews and focus groups, as well as a reading of historical records of student activism, demonstrate two trends. First, when political opportunities permit, student activism is able to transcend campuses…
Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis: Beyond the Impasse in the Mediterranean
Naher Und Mittlerer Osten / Near and Middle East
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the Mena: Why policy discourse travels but implementation doesn’t
This article explores the transfer of European approaches to youth policy to MENA regimes through their Mediterranean partnership programmes. Drawing on the papers and research conducted for the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) research project, this conclusion investigates how European institutional and MENA governmental interests in similar models of youth policy-making converged but also why this convergence remained largely a feature of the discursive domai…
Beyond the Impasse? Dynamics of youth agency in times of crisis
This Special Issue examines the structural context of the political economy in the Middle East and North Africa in relation to the civic and political participatory trends of young people today. It is concerned with understanding the extent to which young people influence public policies, social, cultural and economic structures from below, and how they themselves are influenced by these same structures from above. It analyzes the impact of youth…
Youth socio-economic and political grievances: Bringing the ‘Political’ back into understanding contestation in the Mena
Based on the quantitative and qualitative fieldwork of the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) project in six MENA countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Occupied Palestinian Territories) this article analyses the relation between young people’s economic grievances, their satisfaction with their regimes’ governance and the extent to which they are politically mobilized. What is the relation between socio-economic and political grievances and contesta…
Contentious activism and political trust in non-democratic regimes: Evidence from the Mena
This study discusses the relation between political trust and contentious activism in non-democratic regimes, via quantitative and qualitative analysis of three countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia. In this article I add to the debate on repression and dissent, by linking political trust in the coercive apparatus to contentious activism. Are activists more inclined to contest their regimes, when they h…
Repression, Cooptation, and Movement Fragmentation in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from the Youth Movement in Egypt
How do authoritarian regimes fragment protest movements in the aftermath of mass protests? How do protest movements deal with these authoritarian measures in return? Based on qualitative fieldwork with 70 young people in Egypt from April until November 2015, I demonstrate that regimes which face major contentious events and transition back to authoritarian rule, utilize two main strategies for fragmenting protest movements: repression and cooptat…
Neoliberalism, marginalization and the uncertainties of being young: The case of Egypt
This study highlights the general context of neoliberalism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and its influence on young people’s life chances. It is mainly concerned with understanding the extent to which socio-economic variables, like education and family income levels, impact youth marginalization. Through analysing the case of Egypt, this study argues that education is indeed a predictor for developing a young person’s life chances. …
Civil Society and the Rise of Unconventional Modes of Youth Participation in the Mena
Why are there variances in young people’s civic and political participation in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, and what are the implications of these types of participatory modes on authoritarian rule in the region? Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork from five countries in the Middle East – Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon – this paper demonstrates that young people in the region are increasingly drawn to independe…
Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change
During the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and early 2011, nine regimes throughout North Africa and the Middle East were confronted by major demonstrations and contentious events. When the uprisings began in Egypt, it became evident that youth movements were going to play a large part in the uprisings themselves, as well as the ensuing political and social changes. In this book, Nadine Sika demonstrates how youth movements initiated contestation, and…
Ambiguities of student activism, authoritarianism and democratic attitudes: The cases of Egypt and Morocco
This article is concerned with exploring the political attitudes of a microcosm of university students, in Egypt and Morocco, which present two different case studies in the Arab world. The first, a republic which faced mass demonstrations and regime breakdown during the Arab Uprisings, and the second, a monarchy which faced mass demonstrations that were quickly contained through various authoritarian upgrading measures by the monarch. The resear…
Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: A More Ambidextrous Process
Democratization is always an ambidextrous process. On the one hand, it triggers a universalistic set of norms, events, processes and symbols. On the other hand, democratization involves a much more particularistic set of ‘realistic’ adaptations to the structures and circumstances of individual countries. In analysing the structures and conjunctures of countries in the Arab World during the past decades, scholars looked at them from the perspectiv…
The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power
The uprisings which spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 irrevocably altered the way in which the region is now perceived. But in spite of the numerous similarities in these protests, from Tunisia and Egypt to Yemen and Bahrain, their broader political effects display important differences. This book analyses these popular uprisings, as well as other forms of protest, and the impact they had on each state. Why were…
Inaugural Mena Workshop Held
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Dynamics of a Stagnant Religious Discourse and the Rise of New Secular Movements in Egypt
This chapter analyzes the extent to which the Egyptian public sphere, especially religious institutions were controlled by the ruling authoritarian regime. Eventually, both the state's dominance over institutions and society, along with the established religious institutions' discourse, became stagnant, which precipitated the development of new social movements that were able to mobilize people beyond the stagnant religious discourse. These devel…
Youth Political Engagement in Egypt: From Abstention to Uprising
This study analyses the dynamics of youth political engagement in Egypt in the light of 'dual motivation' theory, which defines political engagement in terms of both citizens' interest in changing the outcome of elections and the prevalence of social capital conducive for political engagement. The first part of the article focuses on the dynamics of political mobilisation in general, prior to the uprising of 25 January 2011. The second part exami…
Repression, Cooptation, and Movement Fragmentation in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from the Youth Movement in Egypt
How do authoritarian regimes fragment protest movements in the aftermath of mass protests? How do protest movements deal with these authoritarian measures in return? Based on qualitative fieldwork with 70 young people in Egypt from April until November 2015, I demonstrate that regimes which face major contentious events and transition back to authoritarian rule, utilize two main strategies for fragmenting protest movements: repression and cooptat…
Contentious activism and political trust in non-democratic regimes: Evidence from the Mena
This study discusses the relation between political trust and contentious activism in non-democratic regimes, via quantitative and qualitative analysis of three countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia. In this article I add to the debate on repression and dissent, by linking political trust in the coercive apparatus to contentious activism. Are activists more inclined to contest their regimes, when they h…
Youth Political Engagement in Egypt: From Abstention to Uprising
This study analyses the dynamics of youth political engagement in Egypt in the light of 'dual motivation' theory, which defines political engagement in terms of both citizens' interest in changing the outcome of elections and the prevalence of social capital conducive for political engagement. The first part of the article focuses on the dynamics of political mobilisation in general, prior to the uprising of 25 January 2011. The second part exami…
The consequences of trust and repression on the rise and fall of movements in authoritarian regimes
This article analyzes the relation between interpersonal trust, repression, mobilization, and demobilization in authoritarian regimes. Does interpersonal trust impact mobilization in authoritarian regimes? Does an authoritarian regime’s strategies of repression and cooptation fuel distrust among movement actors and consequently lead to demobilization? Through relying on qualitative analysis in Egypt in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising, …
Trust and social movements: A new research agenda
Social movement studies clearly suggest that trust matters for processes of social mobilization: When engaging in costly, and potentially risky, contentious collective action on a common goal, activists and groups rely on the expectation that fellow protestors and allies will not fail them. To date, however, we lack research that explains which types of trust shape the emergence and evolution of social movements. Trust, we argue, is not simply an…
Civil Society and the Rise of Unconventional Modes of Youth Participation in the Mena
Why are there variances in young people’s civic and political participation in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, and what are the implications of these types of participatory modes on authoritarian rule in the region? Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork from five countries in the Middle East – Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon – this paper demonstrates that young people in the region are increasingly drawn to independe…
Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: A More Ambidextrous Process
Democratization is always an ambidextrous process. On the one hand, it triggers a universalistic set of norms, events, processes and symbols. On the other hand, democratization involves a much more particularistic set of ‘realistic’ adaptations to the structures and circumstances of individual countries. In analysing the structures and conjunctures of countries in the Arab World during the past decades, scholars looked at them from the perspectiv…
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan
In 2018 new economic reform measures were implemented in Egypt and Jordan under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund. These measures were met with public outrage in both countries. In Jordan, mass mobilization, demonstrations and strikes took place, lasted for a month and ended in policy concessions. In Egypt, however, only few independent demonstrations erupted, no mass mobilization occurred, and no policy concessions were enacted by …
Youth socio-economic and political grievances: Bringing the ‘Political’ back into understanding contestation in the Mena
Based on the quantitative and qualitative fieldwork of the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) project in six MENA countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Occupied Palestinian Territories) this article analyses the relation between young people’s economic grievances, their satisfaction with their regimes’ governance and the extent to which they are politically mobilized. What is the relation between socio-economic and political grievances and contesta…
Beyond the Impasse? Dynamics of youth agency in times of crisis
This Special Issue examines the structural context of the political economy in the Middle East and North Africa in relation to the civic and political participatory trends of young people today. It is concerned with understanding the extent to which young people influence public policies, social, cultural and economic structures from below, and how they themselves are influenced by these same structures from above. It analyzes the impact of youth…
Ambiguities of student activism, authoritarianism and democratic attitudes: The cases of Egypt and Morocco
This article is concerned with exploring the political attitudes of a microcosm of university students, in Egypt and Morocco, which present two different case studies in the Arab world. The first, a republic which faced mass demonstrations and regime breakdown during the Arab Uprisings, and the second, a monarchy which faced mass demonstrations that were quickly contained through various authoritarian upgrading measures by the monarch. The resear…
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the Mena: Why policy discourse travels but implementation doesn’t
This article explores the transfer of European approaches to youth policy to MENA regimes through their Mediterranean partnership programmes. Drawing on the papers and research conducted for the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) research project, this conclusion investigates how European institutional and MENA governmental interests in similar models of youth policy-making converged but also why this convergence remained largely a feature of the discursive domai…
Neoliberalism, marginalization and the uncertainties of being young: The case of Egypt
This study highlights the general context of neoliberalism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and its influence on young people’s life chances. It is mainly concerned with understanding the extent to which socio-economic variables, like education and family income levels, impact youth marginalization. Through analysing the case of Egypt, this study argues that education is indeed a predictor for developing a young person’s life chances. …
Dynamics of a Stagnant Religious Discourse and the Rise of New Secular Movements in Egypt
This chapter analyzes the extent to which the Egyptian public sphere, especially religious institutions were controlled by the ruling authoritarian regime. Eventually, both the state's dominance over institutions and society, along with the established religious institutions' discourse, became stagnant, which precipitated the development of new social movements that were able to mobilize people beyond the stagnant religious discourse. These devel…
Youth Political Engagement in Egypt: From Abstention to Uprising
This study analyses the dynamics of youth political engagement in Egypt in the light of 'dual motivation' theory, which defines political engagement in terms of both citizens' interest in changing the outcome of elections and the prevalence of social capital conducive for political engagement. The first part of the article focuses on the dynamics of political mobilisation in general, prior to the uprising of 25 January 2011. The second part exami…
Inaugural Mena Workshop Held
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Arab Uprisings: Transforming and Challenging State Power
The uprisings which spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 irrevocably altered the way in which the region is now perceived. But in spite of the numerous similarities in these protests, from Tunisia and Egypt to Yemen and Bahrain, their broader political effects display important differences. This book analyses these popular uprisings, as well as other forms of protest, and the impact they had on each state. Why were…
Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: A More Ambidextrous Process
Democratization is always an ambidextrous process. On the one hand, it triggers a universalistic set of norms, events, processes and symbols. On the other hand, democratization involves a much more particularistic set of ‘realistic’ adaptations to the structures and circumstances of individual countries. In analysing the structures and conjunctures of countries in the Arab World during the past decades, scholars looked at them from the perspectiv…
Youth Activism and Contentious Politics in Egypt: Dynamics of Continuity and Change
During the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and early 2011, nine regimes throughout North Africa and the Middle East were confronted by major demonstrations and contentious events. When the uprisings began in Egypt, it became evident that youth movements were going to play a large part in the uprisings themselves, as well as the ensuing political and social changes. In this book, Nadine Sika demonstrates how youth movements initiated contestation, and…
Ambiguities of student activism, authoritarianism and democratic attitudes: The cases of Egypt and Morocco
This article is concerned with exploring the political attitudes of a microcosm of university students, in Egypt and Morocco, which present two different case studies in the Arab world. The first, a republic which faced mass demonstrations and regime breakdown during the Arab Uprisings, and the second, a monarchy which faced mass demonstrations that were quickly contained through various authoritarian upgrading measures by the monarch. The resear…
Neoliberalism, marginalization and the uncertainties of being young: The case of Egypt
This study highlights the general context of neoliberalism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and its influence on young people’s life chances. It is mainly concerned with understanding the extent to which socio-economic variables, like education and family income levels, impact youth marginalization. Through analysing the case of Egypt, this study argues that education is indeed a predictor for developing a young person’s life chances. …
Civil Society and the Rise of Unconventional Modes of Youth Participation in the Mena
Why are there variances in young people’s civic and political participation in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings, and what are the implications of these types of participatory modes on authoritarian rule in the region? Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork from five countries in the Middle East – Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon – this paper demonstrates that young people in the region are increasingly drawn to independe…
Repression, Cooptation, and Movement Fragmentation in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from the Youth Movement in Egypt
How do authoritarian regimes fragment protest movements in the aftermath of mass protests? How do protest movements deal with these authoritarian measures in return? Based on qualitative fieldwork with 70 young people in Egypt from April until November 2015, I demonstrate that regimes which face major contentious events and transition back to authoritarian rule, utilize two main strategies for fragmenting protest movements: repression and cooptat…
Naher Und Mittlerer Osten / Near and Middle East
Euro-Mediterranean partnership and youth policies in the Mena: Why policy discourse travels but implementation doesn’t
This article explores the transfer of European approaches to youth policy to MENA regimes through their Mediterranean partnership programmes. Drawing on the papers and research conducted for the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) research project, this conclusion investigates how European institutional and MENA governmental interests in similar models of youth policy-making converged but also why this convergence remained largely a feature of the discursive domai…
Beyond the Impasse? Dynamics of youth agency in times of crisis
This Special Issue examines the structural context of the political economy in the Middle East and North Africa in relation to the civic and political participatory trends of young people today. It is concerned with understanding the extent to which young people influence public policies, social, cultural and economic structures from below, and how they themselves are influenced by these same structures from above. It analyzes the impact of youth…
Youth socio-economic and political grievances: Bringing the ‘Political’ back into understanding contestation in the Mena
Based on the quantitative and qualitative fieldwork of the POWER2YOUTH (P2Y) project in six MENA countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia, Occupied Palestinian Territories) this article analyses the relation between young people’s economic grievances, their satisfaction with their regimes’ governance and the extent to which they are politically mobilized. What is the relation between socio-economic and political grievances and contesta…
Contentious activism and political trust in non-democratic regimes: Evidence from the Mena
This study discusses the relation between political trust and contentious activism in non-democratic regimes, via quantitative and qualitative analysis of three countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia. In this article I add to the debate on repression and dissent, by linking political trust in the coercive apparatus to contentious activism. Are activists more inclined to contest their regimes, when they h…
Activism and contentious politics in Egypt
This chapter explores how student activism in Egypt influences contentious politics within a polity, and conversely how the dynamics of contention within an authoritarian regime can influence student activism on campus. Findings from in-depth interviews and focus groups, as well as a reading of historical records of student activism, demonstrate two trends. First, when political opportunities permit, student activism is able to transcend campuses…
Dynamics of Youth Agency in Times of Crisis: Beyond the Impasse in the Mediterranean
Books for Review
Civil Society and Activism in the Middle East: Regime Breakdown vs. Regime Continuity
This book analyses the impact of repression on civil society activism in the Middle East through the cases of Egypt and Jordan. It argues that authoritarian regimes’ repressive strategies towards civil society actors vary depending on an authoritarian regime’s recent historical experience with regime breakdown and/or continuity. Authoritarian regimes that go through breakdown and that transition from one autocratic rule to another increase repres…
The consequences of trust and repression on the rise and fall of movements in authoritarian regimes
This article analyzes the relation between interpersonal trust, repression, mobilization, and demobilization in authoritarian regimes. Does interpersonal trust impact mobilization in authoritarian regimes? Does an authoritarian regime’s strategies of repression and cooptation fuel distrust among movement actors and consequently lead to demobilization? Through relying on qualitative analysis in Egypt in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising, …
Trust and social movements: A new research agenda
Social movement studies clearly suggest that trust matters for processes of social mobilization: When engaging in costly, and potentially risky, contentious collective action on a common goal, activists and groups rely on the expectation that fellow protestors and allies will not fail them. To date, however, we lack research that explains which types of trust shape the emergence and evolution of social movements. Trust, we argue, is not simply an…
Mobilization, Repression and Policy Concessions in Authoritarian Regimes: The Cases of Egypt and Jordan
In 2018 new economic reform measures were implemented in Egypt and Jordan under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund. These measures were met with public outrage in both countries. In Jordan, mass mobilization, demonstrations and strikes took place, lasted for a month and ended in policy concessions. In Egypt, however, only few independent demonstrations erupted, no mass mobilization occurred, and no policy concessions were enacted by …
There and back again: Democratization, autocratization and democratic resilience
The article introduces the “Fifty Years of the Third Wave” special issue of Democratization. The special issue brings together 11 contributions which commemorate the 50th anniversary of the start of the Third Wave of Democratization with Portugal’s Carnation Revolution in 1974. Together, they take stock of the state of democracy globally and regionally. They discuss historical and recent trends in democratization and autocratization, the performa…
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Democracy (14 works) · Authoritarianism (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (11 works) · Economics (8 works)