Confidence-building in Tunisia after the Popular Uprising: Strategies and Dilemmas of the Interim Government

By Instituto Affari Internazionali
Updated: 04/20/2011

By Jean-Pierre Cassarino. Instituto Affari Internazionali, February 2011.

Tunisia’s interim government is considering political and legal measures to reconfigure the country’s relationships between the state and its citizens. In doing so, it must balance popular calls for social and economic justice with efforts to reinvigorate and stabilize the economy. Inadequately confronting the structure of the economy, youth unemployment, poverty, and corruption risks jeopardizing the credibility of the interim government and compromising the overall reform process.

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