Based on a wealth of new primary data, this book offers the first account of the internal regime factors that caused the fall of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's long dictatorship in Tunisia during the Arab Uprisings. It challenges studies that focus mass mobilization alone and examines the role of a secret coup d'état staged by regime figures in 2011.
Through its detailed exploration of internal regime dynamics and its comparative insights, the book provides a powerful framework for analysing political change and its aftermath, making it a landmark study in the understanding of authoritarian collapse and the processes of revolutionary transformation.