Publication
Mar 2011
Do the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya constitute an “Arab Spring” leading to transition democratization, akin to 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe? Or should we look to 1979 in Iran, and the prospect of Sunni theocracy taking hold? Might the wider Muslim world – Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey – provide alternative potential governance models for the MENA region, given indigenous variants appear exhausted and no longer able to self-reproduce? What are the lessons which other MENA incumbent regimes and the international community will identify? How might those lessons be learned?
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Author | Graeme P. Herd |
Series | GCSP Policy Papers |
Issue | 12 |
Publisher | Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) |
Copyright | © 2011 Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) |