Spring
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Unlike the other Arab
Spring
countries – where populist nationalism cloaked in anti-American sentiment is flourishing, and attacks on US-funded institutions and non-governmental organizations are not uncommon – Libya retains a deep reservoir of goodwill toward the US, among both its people and their new government.
But, while he refuses to spell out his plans for remaining in power once his second term expires next spring, his economic policy is clear.
Not surprisingly, inflation has shot up from 7% last
spring
to 11% currently, and may reach 15% in the
spring.
Indeed, the sin of insufficient loyalty – Jang was noticeably absent during the spring, when Kim threatened war against his neighbors and the United States – seemed to loom large.
The only monarchical regime that was seriously challenged during the Arab
Spring
was the Sunni ruling family in Shia-majority Bahrain, where precisely this sectarian divide seems to have been the crucial ingredient in the uprising, which was then brutally suppressed with Saudi military help.
For Americans (and others) who believe that the Arab world thinks about nothing but the Palestinian cause, events this
spring
in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and even the Levant should have convinced them otherwise.
It is critical to respond to the Arab
Spring
with assistance that is commensurate to the movement’s historical possibilities.
Preventing Qaddafi from rebuilding the wall of fear that fell in Tunisia and Egypt is essential if the “Arab spring” is not to be succeeded by a new winter of discontent.
Indeed, France has a very large immigrant population that originated in the Maghreb, and for which the “Arab spring” is vitally important and a source of fascination and pride.
And, when US forces overran Saddam Hussein’s army in the
spring
of 2003, the encircled Iranians proposed a grand bargain that would put all contentious issues on the table, from the nuclear issue to Israel, from Hezbollah to Hamas.
This spring’s presidential election in Haiti sadly re-enforced the country’s blighted reputation.
With EU expansion coming next spring, all Ukrainians fear that a new wall will cut their country off from the Union's easternmost border in Poland.
Putin’s Year of Living DangerouslyMOSCOW – In the
spring
of 2008, Russian President Vladimir Putin was on top of the world.
The more recent advent of social media may have disturbed the authoritarians slightly – remember the Arab
Spring?
There are many reasons for the weakening of Arab nation-states, the most proximate of which is the legacy of the Arab
Spring.
The Arab
Spring
and the Western WinterBEIRUT – There are many striking parallels between the “Arab Spring” that began in 2010 and the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, the election of US President Donald Trump, and the far-right resurgence across Europe.
As the events of the French elections last
spring
demonstrated, when this dynamic prevails, the left loses the elections.
This spring, anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out almost simultaneously in both China and Korea, with both countries seeking to place the memory of Japanese dominance in the service of building a new national identity and strategic position.
Turkey’s policies following the Arab
Spring
had led to a loss of influence and friends in the region; but recently the country has begun to adapt its approach to the realities on the ground.
Then, beginning in the
spring
of 1990, Germany united, the Warsaw Pact and USSR disintegrated, and countries to Germany's east, which had been the staging post for Soviet tank armies, suddenly became friends, then partners.
Nothing about Clinton’s trip was as path-breaking as her visit earlier this
spring
to Myanmar, where she met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein to lend her support to their delicate political dance, which may yet bring the country into the global democratic fold.
This recognition has already dampened US policymakers’ support for the Arab
Spring
uprisings: witness Obama’s hesitation to intervene in Libya and his unwillingness, at least so far, to involve America directly in Syria’s bloody civil war.
But, following the Arab
Spring
revolts of 2011, it embraced an interventionist foreign policy that has favored Islamists, a move that has irked Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
And youth-led protest movements, from the Arab
Spring
to the Spanish indignados and the Occupy Wall Streeters, have made clear that something is very wrong with the capitalist system.
We will continue to build on these efforts in Washington, DC, at the
spring
meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
This is also one of the problems revealed by the Arab
Spring.
Indeed, there are now greater geopolitical uncertainties as well: the risk of an Iran-Israel military confrontation remains high as negotiations and sanctions may not deter Iran from developing nuclear-weapons capacity; a new war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is likely; the Arab
Spring
is turning into a grim winter of economic, social, and political instability; and territorial disputes in Asia between China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Vietnam are inflaming nationalist forces.
But this indicator is also not consistent with the focus on France’s presidential election this spring, or on Italy’s general election (which must be held by early next year) as somehow determining the fate of the euro.
Those who believed that the Arab
Spring
would give rise to a new era of democracy and participatory governance in the Arab world never anticipated the power of retrograde forces – such as the self-described “Islamic State” – to push the region toward more primeval forms of tribal and sectarian loyalty.
Egypt, which seemed to be establishing democracy in the wake of the Arab
Spring
revolutions, is the poster child for this trap.
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