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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tunisian Commentary Around the Web

Everybody's got something to say about Tunisia, and for those of you in need of all-Tunisia-all-the-time commentary, here are some links:

Two veteran hands, Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg, analyze the revolution from an economic development perspective at Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel.

Scott Lucas continues to liveblog
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The Arabist on Tunisia and the broader region.

Juan Cole weighs in on the new government
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Ellen Laipson of the Stimson Center on the Arab world's first "soft revolution."

And two from The Moor Next Door: his first thoughts on the fall of Ben Ali and a look at the wave of self-immolations, especially the one in Mauritania.

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