دور العامل الخارجي في التوجه الديمقراطي في الأردن فترة الربيع العربي 2011-2019 : دراسة حالة

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Objective: The study aims at examining the impacts of the external environment on the democratic trend in Jordan in the period(2011-2019) highlighting the role of the Arab Spring in effecting changes in the political, economic, and social structures and their reflection on the democratic trend in Jordan, in addition to studying the nature of these changes in the regional and international policy and their impact on the environment of the Jordanian political system.

Methodology: the study employed the method of system analysis to test the main hypothesis of the study, considering that the external factor plays an effective role either negatively or positively in enhancing the indicators of the democratic trend of the state.

Results: The study deduced a group of results, the most prominent of which are the following: the Arab Spring formed a positive and negative factor in the democratic trend in Jordan, in terms of the effect of political instability in strengthening the political will of the Jordanian decision- maker to implement the indicators of reform and democratic orientation, while, on the other hand, the consequences of the Arab Spring constituted a negative factor in increasing the problems of the political, economic, and social structures, which ultimately formed an obstacle in the face of reform and democratic trend.