Abstract:
Isaura Dhean, ―THE ANALYSIS ON THE EMERGENCE OF CITIZEN
DIPLOMACY IN ARAB SPRING; CASE STUDY EGYPT (2011-2013)”.
(Thesis Advisor: Teuku Rezasyah, PhD)
The event of the Arab Spring revolution in 2011 was a remarkable
momentum in International Relations history. Started in Tunisia, North Africa
spread to other Middle-East countries. This event turned out into diplomacy called
Citizen Diplomacy, whereas diplomacy is no longer the game for the elites, yet
each citizen could participate in their own diplomacy to determine their future
fate. Arab World had been perceived as isolated countries, but when the Uprising
exploded, many parties want to involve in this phenomena, help to solve the
problem that arose or just to seek any benefit for their own sake of interest. Many
want democracy over the region, many want it failed. But did democracy is what
really needed across the region? Instead, some countries have been implemented it
for years. Through this thesis, the writer would like to do a research regarding on
the emergence of Citizen Diplomacy during the Arab Spring, especially in Egypt
–the second country that launched the revolution after Tunisia and kept
maintaining its diplomacy for about two and half years resulting two president
change. This thesis mainly uses the Marxism theory by Karl Marx to elaborate the
citizen as the proletariat and the government as the bourgeoisie, then get specific
to the diplomacy, then get deeper to Citizen Diplomacy. Since the media played
an important role in the Uprising, the writer gathered the data selectively,
avoiding bias. Egypt legal system is mixed, between democratic and sharia which
not represent a democratic nor sharia law. Instead, those two governmental
systems were used to benefit some parties, mostly the ruling elites – neglected its
citizen, leaving no choice for them, except fighting for their own goodness. With
no money, no political leader, no time to prepare, no blueprints, the citizen of
Egypt hand-in-hand to overthrow their own government using the power of social
media
