Stephen J. King teaches at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists (Cambridge University Press, 2020), The New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa (Indiana University Press, 2009), and Liberalization Against Democracy: The Local Politics of Economic Reform in Tunisia (Indiana University Press, 2003). He is co-editor of The Lure of Authoritarianism: The Maghreb After the Arab Spring (Indiana University Press, 2019).