The Lesson of the Arab Spring

The Lesson of the Arab Spring

The euphoria that accompanied the relatively quick removal of the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt soon gave way to the realization that such successes could not be easily replicated in the other Arab states. Each Arab country has its own peculiarities of history, social structure, religion, and ethnic and tribal composition that make it unique.

Moreover, as events began to unfold, there developed a growing apprehension that the outcomes of those uprisings may not be as felicitous as many had hoped. After all, and as the French, Russian, Chinese and Iranian revolutions have shown, revolutions often generate unintended consequences that are contrary to their espoused goals.

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