New Middle East, new insecurities and the limits of liberation geography / J Peter Burgess and Costas M Constantinou.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2013Subject(s): Online resources: In: Security Dialogue Vol.44, No 5-6, October-December 2013, pp.363-373 (47)Summary: This article introduces a special issue of the journal which contains 8 papers each dealing with a different aspect of the changes collectively called the Arab Spring. In essence the Arab Spring is an on-going process to replace authoritarian regimes with more representative forms of government and give human rights a higher profile. Notes that progress has been patchy and some authoritarian states have yet to change; also notes that the process raises "difficult political questions about what has happened and what ought to be done" in terms of intervention, security, international relations, and foreign policies of and towards the new Middle East.
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This article introduces a special issue of the journal which contains 8 papers each dealing with a different aspect of the changes collectively called the Arab Spring. In essence the Arab Spring is an on-going process to replace authoritarian regimes with more representative forms of government and give human rights a higher profile. Notes that progress has been patchy and some authoritarian states have yet to change; also notes that the process raises "difficult political questions about what has happened and what ought to be done" in terms of intervention, security, international relations, and foreign policies of and towards the new Middle East.

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