The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. In my view this is mostly rhetoric.
Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination. In “The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,” he analyzes the wave of popular protests that swept the Middle East in 2011. Sadly, the continuing tragedies in other Arab countries are more like the classical Greek kind. Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Cris… The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East.
Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. He recognizes that tragedy was a corollary of these political awakenings in almost every place the uprisings occurred ... share Feldman’s admiration for the Tunisian compromise, but I think he is too sanguine about its meaning. Feldman’s book is a reflection on the Arab Spring and, as its title suggests, its disastrous ending.
Rather, it was a noble, tragic series of events in which, for the first time in recent Middle Eastern history, Arabic-speaking peoples took free, collective political action as they sought to achieve self-determination. Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. They are likely to go on inspiring pity and fear for a long time to come.One of the difficulties in writing about the Arab Spring is that the term really refers to a series of mutually inspired but quite different national conflicts. Yet in his new book, Noah Feldman...has tried to outline a unified theory ... On the face of it, his argument is unconvincing ... Feldman’s book purports to challenge the conventional wisdom on the Arab Spring by taking the region on its own terms and setting aside the simplifying lens of imperialism. This is precisely why a reinvigoration of civilian politics in the region remains very difficult. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of … The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: This content is currently not available in your region.
The strategic reasons for U.S. predominance in the Middle East are unchanged.
Michael Doran. Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was nevertheless not an unmitigated failure, much less an inevitable one. See our