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This report offers a structured overview of the dramatic political transition processes that are currently playing out in the Arab world. Following a swift and seemingly uniform wave of political uprisings that have toppled a number of Arab dictatorships, these transitions have taken a variety of forms. These variations result both from the central role of political agents during these processes and reflect the somewhat different starting conditions of the transition countries. Based on these, this report identifies five distinctive models of change, each based on the developments in an example country.