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Title:	The Arab uprising incident and its implications on human security in Syria
Authors:	Alharbi Dakheeallah Ameed (P92662)
Supervisor:	Zarina Othman, Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Democratization -- Arab countries Democratization -- Middle East Protest movements -- Arab countries -- History -- 21st century Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	18-Mar-2021
Description:	In the late 2010, the world was shocked by the anti-governments' protest in Tunisia. The uprisings known as the Arab Uprising, spread across several Middle Eastern and North African Arab speaking countries, including Libya, Egypt and Yemen which brought about a change in governments. Nevertheless, Bashar Hafez al Assad of Syria has remained in power. This study attempts to investigate, why the Arab Uprising prolonged in Syria and failed to bring a change of government. The research has three primary objectives, first, to discuss the Middle East regional security scenario and how the states in the region responded to the anti-governments protest; secondly, to analyze economic, food and health security before and after the Arab Uprising, and thirdly, to analyze political, community and personal security before and after the Arab Uprising. This study is based on qualitative method of research. The primary data was collected through in-depth interviews with policy makers, scholars, scholars NGOs, and Syrian community. The secondary data was gathered from reliable and valid printed as well as online documents related to the subject matter. The findings of the study exemplified, first, the Arab Uprising was partly caused by the authoritarian regimes. Negligence of the basic needs of the people has resulted in frustrations and led to protest. In the case of Syria, the involvement of external powers, such as Russia, Iran and the nonstate group of Hezbollah, resulted in a continued survival of the al Assad regime. Other external actors such as the United States of America, Saudi Arabia and Turkey that assisted the people, have also contributed to the civil war and destabilized the region. Secondly, low standard of living and backwardness, rampant poverty, high rate of unemployment, insufficient food availability, inaccessible health care facilities, human rights abuse, and high illiteracy rate, have pushed the people to the street asking for the regime's change. Thirdly, with the prolonged civil war has claimed more than 400,000 lives. Syria has witnessed the exodus of refugees where more than half of the population were forced to leave their home in search of a secured livelihood. Syria's economy is in bad shape, in which 38% of the people were unable to obtain food to meet their daily basic needs, almost half of the entire medical facilities were partly or wholly damaged and most of the housing units were destroyed. The war has pushed for worse human insecurity and created instability in the region. Nevertheless, the al Assad regime continues to remain in power. In the case of Syria, people's power is not strong enough to topple the regime.,Ph.D
Pages:	296
Call Number:	JQ1850.A91A434 2021 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan

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