Despite mixed results, observers generally praised the Arab Spring as a revolutionary democratic moment for a region long mired in tyranny. Yet, 15 years on, it is clear that while popular demands for ...

Sudanese women wave Sudanese flags during a demonstration in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 20, 2019. (Reuters / Umit Bektas) Images of popular protests that recall the revolutionary movement of 2011 have ...

There is a fundamental sickness in liberal foreign policy. So argues John Rossomando, an analyst at the Washington-based think tank for The Center for Security Policy and a former researcher for the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It only took one decade. Ten years ago this month, democratic movements, ...

More than eight years ago, millions of Arab citizens tuned to Al-Jazeera as it delivered round-the-clock coverage of the “Arab Spring” revolutions. For the first time, it seemed, people were taking ...

Democracy and Security, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Arab Spring Challenges for Democracy and Security in the Mediterranean (January-June 2013), pp. 1-18 (18 pages) The policy of the European Union (EU) toward ...

A decade on, the memory of the Arab Spring sparks ambiguous feelings in the Middle East and Europe. The European public excitement concerning the uprisings from Tunisia to Syria is long gone. Along ...

There is a second Arab Spring in the air in North Africa. In Algeria and Sudan, two of the most miserably repressive dictators on the African continent have fallen to popular protests. That sounds ...

Iraqis carry the coffin of a demonstrator—one of over 150 people who have been killed during recent protests—at a funeral in Najaf, Iraq, October 7, 2019. (Reuters / Alaa al-Marjani) By signing up, ...

Bitcoin is not simply a new monetary tool, a new currency, or an additional asset class. I tell people that Bitcoin is a Monetary Revolution. The Bitcoin eco-system is full of innovations to bring ...

In his otherwise incisive May 24 review of Noah Feldman’s “The Arab Winter: A Tragedy,” Robert F. Worth presents the Arab Spring uprisings as discrete historical events that bear little relationship ...

John Rossomando, The Arab Spring Ruse: How the Muslim Brotherhood Duped Washington in Libya and Syria (Washington, DC: The Center for Security Policy, 2021), pp. 128. There is a fundamental sickness ...