The Promise of the Arab Spring: pIt’s easy to be pessimistic about the Arab Spring, given the post-revolutionary turmoil the Middle East is now experiencing. But critics forget that it takes time for new democracies to transcend their authoritarian pasts. As the history of political development elsewhere shows, things get better./p
Critics treat new democracies as blank slates, ignoring how much of their dynamics and fate are inherited rather than chosen.
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