140-the Arab Spring Implications for British Policy October 2011Foreword 1 preface 2 introduction 3 Chapter 1: Regional Overview 4 Eugene Rogan (university of Oxford) Chapter 2: Tunisia: the Trailblazer and the Benchmark 8 Michael J. Willis (university of Oxford) Chapter 3: Egypt: transition to democracy 13 Tariq Ramadan (university of Oxford) Chapter 4: Six lessons from Libya 16 Shashank Joshi (RUSI) Chapter 5: Syria:revolution and repression 20 Marwa Daoudy (university of
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the past couple of years we have certainly seen a drastic change in the Arab world dating back to December of 2010 in Tunisia as protestors forced ruler Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country. This was the beginning of the Arab spring‚ which saw a revolutionary wave spread across many Arabic countries resulting in four leaders being forced from power in the countries of Tunisia‚ Egypt‚ Libya and Yemen. The sociological perspective on conflict states that the world is in a continual struggle and
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THE DANGERS OF REVOLUTION: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE 2011 MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS ON REGIONAL STABILITY Joseph W. Mulcahy NSEC 613 Current and Emerging Threats to National Security American Public University Summer 2011 1 Introduction In the waning weeks of 2010‚ a twenty-six year old Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi “opted not to pay off yet another official—and instead set himself on fire at the governor’s office in Sidi Bouzid.”1 The fatal act of civil disobedience
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“The city (in modern-day Tunisia‚ North Africa) was originally known as Kart-hadasht (new city) to distinguish it from the older Phoenician city of Utica nearby” (Mark‚ 2018). Carthage was city consisting of Phoenicians from Tyre‚ situated in the northern part of Africa which was
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is the main reason why countries after countries have collapsed or are collapsing like a pack of cards. No one would have imagined a few months back that a small trigger in Tunisia would cause such a ripple effect throughout the Middle East. Mohammed Bouazizi lit himself on fire on December 17‚ 2010 in a small town of Tunisia protesting against police brutality against him but the fire went out of control‚ caught the entire Middle East. The pressure compressed for the last few decades has been finally
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The War in Syria In August 2013 Barack Obama made a statement that shook the world‚ he called for ‘limited’ airstrikes to be used against Syria’s government of President Assad in retaliation to chemical weapons attacks made allegedly by him on his own people‚ with the result of many deaths of men‚ women and children‚ in an effort to combat the rebels with whom they have been fighting a long civil war. The result of this announcement led to widespread debate amongst countries around the world on
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vegetables he was selling from a street stall and slapped his face in the process‚ set himself on fire and passed away a few days later. As an aftermath of this incident‚ a huge wave of protests over unemployment and social issues sparked out in Tunisia‚ forcing then-president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to step down from his position after 23 years in power. Following this event‚ activists and ordinary people started to head out onto streets in Egypt‚ Libya‚ Yemen‚ and other Arab sub-regions and societies
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Introduction The Arab Spring‚ referring to the chain reaction of revolutions in the Arab world‚ is considered to have begun in Tunisia when a small produce seller lit himself on fire to protest the government taking away his job. Some say that this event‚ coupled with enough pressure from outside media sources‚ sparked the revolution of the younger generation in Tunisia that overthrew their prime minister‚ Mohamed Ghannouchi; others argue that the area was ripe for revolution thanks to the infusion
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well as demonstrations which sweeps across Arabian countries and some parts of North Africa. It first broke out in Tunisia then spread through the neighboring countries independently. Most of its insurgency arose in the year of 2011 and this makes the political situations of the Near East in the same year became extremely troublous. The foremost riot rose in the Republic of Tunisia because of the sensational act of a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi. This twenty-six-year-old man was an irritated
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Causes of World War I Essay World War I broke out on the 28th June 1914 when a Serbian terrorist group‚ who called themselves the Black Hand‚ assassinated Franz Ferdinand the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne. By the time the war had ended in 1918‚ it had taken the lives of more than nine million soldiers. Ever since‚ historians from all over the world have debated and discussed the reason for not only why and how the war came to pass‚ but the reason for the grand geographic scale of it. One
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