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Bookmark or Share- Arab Spring, Arab Storm: Implications for IsraelThe Arab Spring has led to deep systemic changes -- mostly negative -- in the rules of the game throughout the Middle East. If this trend persists, it will harm the interests of not only the United States and Israel, but also Arab countries, particularly those that have been longstanding U.S. allies.
- The Arab Spring Then and Now, Through the Prism of Public OpinionAmong Arab states, many leaders are highly attuned to public opinion and invest in attaining credible data for use as a tool in policy formulation. In the US, specific episodes show how adequate attention to this factor helped formulate sound Mideast policies, but inadequate attention contributed to tragic failures, even 9/11.
- Beyond Islamists and Autocrats: - The Washington InstituteFour years after the Arab Spring, the Middle East is aflame, but the Arab states have not fallen like dominoes to the Islamists. In Egypt, a Muslim Brotherhood electoral victory was reversed by a military coup; in Tunisia, a democratically elected but widely unpopular Islamist-led coalition ceded power to a more secular coalition government.
- No Going Back Activists Reflect a Decade After the Arab SpringAgainst the backdrop of simmering protests, endemic economic challenges, the continuing struggle to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, and fallout from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, The Washington Institute has launched a series of policy papers to help guide the Biden administration’s approach on democracy, reform, human rights, and political change across the Middle East and North Africa.
- After Sparking the Arab Spring, Is Tunisia Still a Success Story?Furthermore, Freedom House indicated in its 2020 “Freedom in the World” report that Tunisia is the only “free” country in the Arab world. The new Tunisian government has made some steps to rectify and ameliorate the abuses of the Ben Ali regime, calling for the execution of a transitional justice process in 2013 to address past ...
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