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Evan Osnos, writing in The New Yorker, reports that two years ago, in the midst of the Arab uprisings, a senior official told a meeting in Beijing that if the Chinese government “waver[ed]” in the midst of social-media-fueled global dissidence, “the state could sink into the abyss.”
The Middle Eastern uprisings have pushed oil prices higher, eating up consumer purchasing power while raising input prices for many producers.
For example, the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010-2011, which produced a massive wave of refugees, were triggered by a rise in wheat prices, which led to widespread bread riots that morphed into broader political revolutions.
The first wave of Arab uprisings, which began in December 2010 and led to the 2011 Arab Spring, was a response to the breakdown of the old social contracts.
But, as Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, recently explained, US foreign policy over the past few years has been buffeted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, concerns about terrorism, nuclear-proliferation threats in Iran and North Korea, and the recent Arab uprisings.
These past 13 years have been fair-to-middling for the country: mediocre economic growth, but no collapse; democratic rotation in power, with no uprisings or massacres; a slow but steady expansion of the middle class; and a slow but steady drop in corruption.
After all, revolutions go far beyond popular uprisings and the overthrow of old regimes.
Saudi Arabia vs. the Arab SpringPRINCETON – Saudi Arabia is widely perceived as leading the counter-revolution against the Arab Spring uprisings.
One key trigger of the Arab Spring uprisings – rising food prices – was directly connected to the region’s worsening water crisis.
The subdued nature of the few public protests that have occurred contrasts sharply with uprisings in Europe’s other struggling economies – such as Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland – not to mention those that have roiled the Arab world in recent years.
Technology is, no doubt, one explanation for the uprisings that we are seeing in much of the Arab world.
That is why I am not at all sure that the street uprisings in Egypt, following those in Tunisia, and now spreading to other Muslim-majority countries, can be interpreted simply as traditional forms of protest against bad rulers.
Democracies are prone to populist uprisings, especially when inequality is on the rise.
But the track record of such uprisings should give us pause.
Unlike the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, the current fighting in Libya presents Al Qaeda with an opportunity to confirm its classic narrative about the importance of change through violence.
The uprisings ousted reliable old allies like Hosni Mubarak, and turned regimes such as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s into implacable enemies.
Facebook and Twitter, for example, played a pivotal role in galvanizing protesters during the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011.
The Arab Revolutions’ Reality CheckBERLIN – Two years after popular uprisings began to convulse the Middle East, few people speak of an “Arab Spring” anymore.
The wars and crises of the last six years have reversed much of the progress that political Islam had made in the decade before the so-called Arab Spring uprisings erupted in 2011.
But there is a serious chance that the uprisings will spread, destabilizing Bahrain, Algeria, Oman, Jordan, Yemen, and eventually even Saudi Arabia.
The Biblical confrontation is invoked to describe everything from sporting contests to popular uprisings against dictators.
Until the onset of the Arab uprisings, “zero problems with neighbors” meant zero problems with the Middle East’s established autocratic regimes.
The uprisings culminated in 1982, when rebels took control of the conservative Sunni city of Hama.
Privatizing the GulfJEDDAH – As the Arab world undergoes fundamental changes, its leaders must adapt fast or risk popular uprisings – a lesson that has not been lost on the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Yet very little attention has been paid to promoting entrepreneurship, despite its potential to channel the youthful dynamics unleashed by the Arab uprisings in a positive direction.
Energy security is also a notable risk factor, especially given the uncertain outcomes of the popular uprisings in the Middle East.
Worse, beyond the removal of individual autocratic leaders, few of the problems that fueled the uprisings have been addressed.
Cult-animated uprisings against unjust authority, with which Falun Gong is now identified, have always been viewed by Chinese as portents that political legitimacy -- sanctioned by the so-called “mandate of heaven” (tianming)that is said to exist when “heaven” confers its favor on a ruling dynasty -- has been withdrawn.
In the first phase of these popular uprisings, those who had been politically and economically excluded began to demand inclusion and participation.
To be sure, street protests have already had a profound impact on Algeria’s authoritarian politics, with official fears of massive uprisings affecting public budgets and political appointments.
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