The Arab Spring: How Revolutions Changed The World

The Revolution may change how the revolutionaries view the world, but not how they view themselves and one another. People stick to a certain ambition until it brings about a change, even when they live in an unchanging society. The world is full of people that choose to remain strongly with their objectives and the values these objectives possess throughout their entire lives. Society as a whole is not influenced by the people inside it or what they wish to see in the

The Arab Spring Uprisings are political protests against the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Morocco, and Jordan. (Manfreda, ) The protests began in Tunisia when a vegetable vendor set himself on fire in protest of the actions of the government. This incident is said to have been the “spark” that fueled the action of the people to overthrow their governments. This region is being watched by every country in the world. The world is watching to see how it will affect their political and economic relationships with one another. Will the areas become democratic nations or will they become shell states where terrorism runs rampant?

The Arab Spring is a term for a series of protests, and uprisings within the Middle East dating back to 2010. Some of the conditions in the Arab world on the eve of the Arab Uprisings include things such as the persistence of authoritarianism, high poverty and unemployment rates, and youth disenfranchisement. In regards to the persistence of authoritarianism, there are “5 major reasons that authoritarian governments were able to survive in the Middle East for so long. These include (1) the maintenance of fiscal health, (2) successful maintenance of international support, (3) patrimonialism vs institutionalism, (4) lack of popular mobilization, and (5) the existence of a credible threat”. (Hoyle)

The Middle East has been the center of attention in the world and the theater of many important events. Over the past thirty yeas, people in the Middle East have experienced all kinds of wars, hunger, devastation and brutal dictatorships. Now, after Arab Spring, some of those dictators are gone, and in countries like Tunisia and to a lesser degree Egypt, there are attempts to establish democracy. In his book, The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring (2013), Paul Danahar writes that the changes brought by Arab Spring will lead to greater freedom for people in the Middle East, and that even the relationship between Israel and Palestine will be impacted (especially because secular and religious Jews in Israel are debating and conducting a "quiet revolution" that, according to Danahar, might lead to a solution). Although there 's much consensus that the Middle East will be greatly impacted if the Israel-Palestine issue is resolved, there 's also the belief that such a resolution won 't happen soon. For instance, in his book, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, Rashid Khalidi writes that the United States has and continues to act as Israel 's lawyer and that therefore it has undermined a real attempt to arrive at a peace accord. That peace accord is a major issue in the changes the Middle East has and continues to experience, and now with the U.S. 's attempt to normalize relations with Iran, there is much to consider

In 2010 the Middle East experienced a disturbing series of protests and riots against the government. The term Arab Spring was coined

The Arab Spring movement is a fundamental event that occurred in the Arab world and a source for contentious debate amongst Western and Middle East scholars regarding the degree of political change and empowerment that the Arab Spring produced; political change refers to the overthrowing of autocratic governments and empowerment refers to the newfound collective identity, empowerment, and unity amongst citizens to challenge corrupt governments. Social movements such as the Arab spring, are defined as collective acting with some degree of organization and continuity outside of institutional or organizational channels for the purpose of challenging or defending the state authority, whether it is institutionally or culturally based in the group, organization, society, culture, or the world order of which they are a part (Orum and Dale 2009, 218). With this definition in mind, the Arab Spring is a wave of social protests initiated by civilians against corrupt governments. In the case of Egypt, the Arab Spring movement is primarily recognized as the 2011 Egyptian revolution. This revolution is characterized by eighteen day long social protests that largely focused on political and regime changes in regards to Hosni Mubarak’s governance. In part, because Mubarak failed to meet the legitimate aspirations of their citizens. These include but are not restricted to political/economic freedoms, human dignity, and economic prosperities. Considering these explanations, the uprising in

The Arab Spring brought revolutionary changes to the Middle East and North African region’s authoritarian republics while bypassing its autocratic monarchies. The monarchical exceptionalism that has allowed these states to remain intact is due to a set of three overlapping factors—crosscutting coalitions, hydrocarbon rents, and foreign patronage. Collectively, these factors explain why most of the royal autocracies never experienced widespread protest.

The Arab Spring is an uprising in the Arab world against their government. The uprising started in Tunisia by a man named Mohamed Bouazizi who set himself on fire in protest for the harassment and repression from the Tunisian government. Rebel groups throughout the Arab world in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Bahrain, were formed with the intent of overthrowing their government and/or changing their regime. This came as a shock to many political scientists because they widely understood that the dictatorship was stable in the Middle East. However, they were wrong and as a result, the United States is faced with a dilemma concerning the support of the newly democratic states and their policies.

Five years after the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring’, people are still questioning themselves whether any of the countries involved has had any positive outcome or if they ever will. Comparisons between the similarities and contrasts of the different states emerged with the very first agitations in the areas. Also nowadays, the international community risks to come up with generalised prophecies based on the worst scenarios. In fact, despite the original opposition to the authoritarian rule, common to all the uprisings, we need to be aware of the unique character of each country and, therefore, the consequent different nuances that the protests had and the difficulties faced during the transition from the authoritarian rule.

The “Arab Spring” is the revolutionary wave of protests and demonstrations in the Arab World, in both the Middle East and North Africa. These waves and protests were done both in peace and violence, and up to this day with the exception of Tunisia there is no clear sign if the Arab Spring is successful or not. The Arab Spring were caused by many different factors, differing from the way the Arab world was split in the end of the Cold War disregarding the different factions in the region, to the injustice in government, coincidentally, resulting the war all to seemingly happen simultaneously.

While these events pre date the current revolutions occurring in the Middle East and Iraq is slightly different as the fall of the regime there was due to foreign intervention, they nonetheless highlight the violence typically associated with regime change.

The political cataclysms in the Arab world during 2011 have once and for all transformed the Middle East. Arab societies and polities do indeed have tight interconnections and share at least some important Characteristics. The longstanding structural problems and turbulence in Arab world is due to the lack of strong leadership and irresponsible, incompetent and irrational leaders. Furthermore, people took on the streets and protest due to the vast increases in the level of Poverty, persistently high unemployment, rampant corruption, internal regional inequalities, and deterioration of economic conditions. Also, widespread and extensive political grievances constituted a common causal thread behind all the uprisings. The Arab spring led

Revolution has played a critical role in the establishment of the modern world. As a means to an end, it is a methodical approach for creating change in the leadership, culture, and organizational structures within a society. Most interpretations of revolutions consist of the aggressive overthrow of a government or societal conditions in an attempt to bring forth change. Although the term ‘revolution’ is often understood to include a violent disruption of the status quo, it can also include non-violent episodes of change of both positive and negative results.

The woes of people living in the Arab World escalated with the regimes becoming more oppressive. Though the grievances had existed for a long time, the people did not have a strong backing that would enable them rise against the oppression. The civil society had been

Revolution refers to a central change in power or governmental structure that takes place over a long period of time depending on the conditions (Stone 1966: 160). Revolutions often develop from social unhappiness in the lower status group of the population and have been taking place through history differing greatly in terms of the conditions and outcomes, the period they last and the ideas and ideologies behind them (Stone 1966:160). However it is difficult to define such a broad concept especially when each revolt has distinctive circumstances that allow people to react in different ways (Stone 1966:161).