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This was a key factor behind the Arab Spring revolts; and, as protests in Chile, Brazil, Israel, Turkey, and India have shown, social tensions stemming from inequality are mounting around the globe.
That much became clear with the Arab Spring revolts in 2011.
The populist revolts of 2016 will almost certainly put an end to this hectic deal-making.
Revolts of the RighteousIt has become fashionable in certain smart circles to regard atheism as a sign of superior education, of a more highly evolved civilization, of enlightenment.
Some were blooded in politics during the students revolts of the 1970s who later backed a movement that, over two decades, gradually penned the Thai military back into its barracks and entrenched electoral democracy.
The Arab revolts have not been directed against the West – on the contrary, they have been fed by Western democratic principles and values – but they could yet produce a reactionary backlash.
Indeed, Western leaders failed to anticipate the long-term consequences of supporting autocracies, revealed in the Arab Spring revolts, or to foresee the impact of successive military interventions in Iraq, Syria, and Libya.
Most obvious, propping up the Assad regime enables Russia to maintain a foothold in the Middle East, while sending the message that popular revolts aimed at overthrowing Russian allies will not succeed.
Economic reforms in France, German unease about refugees and the euro, new attitudes toward European integration in Brussels, and signs that Brexit will be delayed indefinitely or even completely averted: all have created new possibilities for taming the dangerous forces unleashed by last year’s populist revolts.
The Arab revolts, unthinkable a year ago, now challenge a regional order that has prevailed for more than a half-century.
The mass killers who took power in the twentieth century were doomed to being killed in popular revolts or to being tried for their crimes – that is, if they did not die in power.
Czarist rule withstood many harsh tests during its long history: peasant revolts, conspiracies, and the alienation of the educated class.
How else can one explain that an act of revolt in Tunisia led to popular revolts from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula?
The message of today’s populist revolts is that politicians must tear up their pre-crisis rulebooks and encourage a revolution in economic thinking.
The mixed and even contradictory reactions of different EU governments to the Arab popular revolts have highlighted the lack of a common external policy.
World leaders need to recognize that today’s populist revolts are being fueled by a sense of lost dignity – a sentiment that does not factor into most policymakers’ prescription for economic growth and compensatory payments.
After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated.
Although the two youthful revolts were undertaken by the same generation and took similar forms of street demonstrations and sit-ins, there were far more differences than similarities as students rebelled on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
These people, “tainted by communism,” constituted the majority of the participants in all revolts against the communist dictatorships.
Ever since, the country could be held together only by an iron fist: Iraq’s history is replete with Shia, Kurdish, and even Christian Assyrian revolts, all put down in bloody fashion by the ruling Sunni minority.
Yet the trend over the past century has been towards a continuous increase in the number of small states, mainly owing to nationalist revolts against multi-national empires: the latest bout of state creation followed the disintegration of the USSR.
This flies in the face of much conventional thinking, which links mass revolts to economic hardship and assumes that periods of relative prosperity are correlated with mass political quiescence.
A Post-Arab Spring StrategyBERLIN – More than a year into the Arab revolts, their outcomes remain highly uncertain.
Almost everyone was surprised by the revolts, although the political and socioeconomic causal factors were well known.
Likewise, the revolts in different parts of the Arab world have made a mockery of efforts to divide states into “moderate” and “radical” anti-Western camps.
In fact, Western states had no power over the revolts’ outbreak, and they cannot determine their outcome.
At least some of these regimes will regard the Arab revolts as a warning and step up preventive repression, restrict the flow of information, or try to divert attention from domestic politics.
But, while pointing to external enemies can no longer stop revolts and revolutions, it would be a mistake to assume that the disappearance of authoritarian regimes would lead to the swift resolution of regional conflicts.
The Arab revolts have called into question the understanding of stability that has long guided European policies toward the region.
The activists who triggered the Arab revolts may find little attraction in many European policies, but they regard the democratic ideas that Europe cherishes as their own.
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