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In 2011 and 2012, a wave of popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East shook the region’s autocratic regimes, prompting euphoric reactions in the West about an “Arab Spring” and a supposed new age of democracy. While the overthrow of authoritarian regimes can give democracy a chance to bloom, it has also created opportunities for a wide spectrum of Islamist parties to advance their undemocratic agendas.
Burning Shores, The: Inside the Battle for the New Libya by Wehrey, Frederic at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 0374278245 - ISBN 13: 9780374278243 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 2018 - Hardcover
For centuries, the downfall of one global empire has resulted in the ascension of another. But as Jason Pack shows in his new book, LIBYA AND THE GLOBAL ENDURING DISORDER (Oxford University Press; February, 2022), we are no longer in the post-Cold War World, but are rather in a new era, one he terms “the Enduring Disorder.”
The challenge for Western policymakers is to avoid viewing Russian activism in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa through an exclusively zero-sum lens. The region’s political disarray, complexities, and especially the unpredictability of local rulers all present built-in buffers to Russian influence as they do to all external players.