Yasmina Abouzzohour is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for International Affairs. She is also a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center (BDC) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and a Senior Fellow at the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis (MIPA). Her research revolves around authoritarian persistence and transition, focusing on regimes’ strategic economic and political behavior and their interactions with opposition movements.