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Essay / Arab Spring and third wave of democratization: the case...
(The Guardian, 2011) Police brutality ended all mechanisms for protecting civilians and led to massive human rights violations. It also discouraged the importance of individualism, individual autonomy and social control in the name of state sovereignty. But, comments former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, state sovereignty should be an individual's relationship to the state, in terms of accountability and responsiveness. (Annan, 2014) This means that sovereignty is not only about the interests of the state versus agencies, but also the interests of individuals versus state actors. (Cassidy,