POLS 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mohamed Morsi, Arab Spring, Quran

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3060
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

Question for paper: one of the biggest questions to emerge from the. Arab spring is why some militaries stand by their (authoritarian) regimes while others do not. Military did not do so, they moved in on citizens, capturing activists and torturing them. No one believed in military working with the people anymore: dr. mohammad morsi, leader of the muslim brotherhood runs for. President and wins: he had won, but was already facing powerful opponents: mubarak regime is still clearly embedded in the egyptian state. The military is not controlled by the elected power, but still run by the old president, because of high levels of corruption. The big idea: to have something in the constitution protecting the people from the military the military was able to try citizens in military courts. The power of the military needed to be limited.