ARAB SPRING – AND NOW THE MORNING AFTER –
ARAB SPRING – AND NOW THE MORNING AFTER –

Summary/Abstract: The hopes of real democracy sweeping through the Arab world have not materialised. Having travelled through the region, I saw different interpretations of what freedom means, frustrations having simply changed targets, and new problems replacing old ones. The regimes may have gone. But the societies, structures and problems they created over decades have not. When hundreds of thousands of Arabs poured into the streets at the end of 2010, many Westerners believed that they were witnessing a democratic revolution. One that would finally free the Middle East from the shackles of authoritarianism and introduce a reign of universal principles of freedom stretching from Chile to South Korea.

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