Acumulación y resistencias en el Norte de África y Oriente Medio: Colonialismo, poscolonialismo y neoliberalismo

In this article, we analyse the intertwining of external and internal factors affecting social mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa. We begin in the nineteenth century, when the region became definitively subsumed into a global economy and undertook the process of political modernisation. The impact of the external influence depends directly on the weight of the resources of power at any given time: land, the modern state, coercion, industrialisation, or finances. Monitoring these resources allows us to see the evolution of power and elites, as well as popular responses. In our analysis, we will take a historical perspective of the sociology of power.