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The Tunisia Model in Crisis

Sarah Yerkes
  • August 06, 2021
  • Foreign Affairs
Summary:  As the countries around it descended into civil war or regressed into authoritarianism, Tunisia held free and fair national and local elections, adopted a liberal-democratic constitution, and witnessed a peaceful transition of power.
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